Redefining merit can promote meaningful inclusion and express institutional leadership in addressing social justice.

Retention, student progression, and career advancement milestones are at least as important as admissions in promoting just medical education opportunity.

Diversity standards in medical education accreditation do not guarantee diversity but stimulate schools’ activities to recruit and retain diverse students and faculty.

Religious and cultural values can conflict with clinical standard practice and law.

Although organ donation conflicts with self-interest, because donation is vital to the community, interventions to increase it are ethically justified.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.