Asian American medical students face racism, discrimination: Yale study

[Anonymous]

A new study learned that Asian American medical students often experience anti-Asian racism and discrimination from both the medical community and patients.

Details to know: The study was conducted by Dr. David Yang, who now works as a fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, to determine if the racism and discrimination against Asian Americans was widespread after he experienced it firsthand in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who the participants were: Yang and his colleagues questioned 25 Asian American medical students from 17 different schools through online video interviews, 16 of whom were women.

Of the 25 participants in the study, eight were Chinese Americans, followed by five Korean Americans and Indian Americans each, three Vietnamese Americans, two Filipino Americans and one of each Nepalese, Pakistani and Desi Americans.

Commenting on the ethnicity: Yang, who led the study, said they “wanted to make sure” they had a “broad range of perspectives” for the study when they “intentionally recruited students who are classically less represented in medicine, such as Vietnamese Americans and Filipino Americans.”

What they found: Through the 1-on-1 interviews, Yang and his colleagues learned that the Asian American participants experienced several types of racism and discrimination, such as invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

In another example, one Filipino American medical student shared how a patient’s parent yelled at them, saying they did not want them to take care of their child over the fear of contracting COVID-19.

Extreme effect: Some medical students interviewed for the study reported experiencing extreme side effects brought by the racism and discrimination they experienced, such as suicidal feelings and questioning if continuing their medical studies was worth it.

Rectifying the issues: Participants reportedly offered suggestions to improve the learning environment for Asian Americans, such as increasing Asian American representation among leadership and mental health personnel.

Yang also suggests that medical school administrators communicate with their Asian American students and ask them how they can provide support for them.

https://news.yahoo.com/asian-american-medical-students-face-201207069.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[Anonymous]

Yeah that's true. My daughter told us incidents like these but I am not sure why it's surprising? I, myself, have experienced these things growing up. A lot of Americans are racists. It is what it is. I tell my daughter to just ignore and move on and focus on something productive.

[Anonymous]

invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

lol cry more.

In point of fact, I prefer Asian doctors and surgeons because they are hard-working, competent, and overcame affirmative action working against them. See, sometimes racism works in your favor!

[Anonymous]

It makes apoorva (Vivek’s wife) even more impressive

Yale ug, Yale medical, ent surgeon

You know she wasn’t given any hand outs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes apoorva (Vivek’s wife) even more impressive

Yale ug, Yale medical, ent surgeon

You know she wasn’t given any hand outs

Helps to be from super rich, well connected family

[Anonymous]

After the whole Vijay Chokal Ingam thing we re-evaluated some of our doctors. Stopped seeing two of them just to be cautious.

The whole lying to get into medical school thing for me is worse than struggling to get through medical school. I HAVE to be able to trust a doctor when I go in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

lol cry more.

In point of fact, I prefer Asian doctors and surgeons because they are hard-working, competent, and overcame affirmative action working against them. See, sometimes racism works in your favor!

As an ICU RN I worked side-by-side with medical students and residents for 15+ years in an academic medical center in a setting where we had many critically ill and dying patients. I will say (and I'm sure that this will be deleted in about 5 seconds) that outward empathy and compassion is less prevalent in SOME Asian medical doctors/residents than other races. I have no doubt that this mostly cultural but it impacts how they are viewed by some patients and staff members.

Now watching this get deleted in 3..2..1..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

lol cry more.

In point of fact, I prefer Asian doctors and surgeons because they are hard-working, competent, and overcame affirmative action working against them. See, sometimes racism works in your favor!

As an ICU RN I worked side-by-side with medical students and residents for 15+ years in an academic medical center in a setting where we had many critically ill and dying patients. I will say (and I'm sure that this will be deleted in about 5 seconds) that outward empathy and compassion is less prevalent in SOME Asian medical doctors/residents than other races. I have no doubt that this mostly cultural but it impacts how they are viewed by some patients and staff members.

Now watching this get deleted in 3..2..1..

I am an Asian and I don't find your post offensive. Idiotic maybe but not offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

lol cry more.

In point of fact, I prefer Asian doctors and surgeons because they are hard-working, competent, and overcame affirmative action working against them. See, sometimes racism works in your favor!

As an ICU RN I worked side-by-side with medical students and residents for 15+ years in an academic medical center in a setting where we had many critically ill and dying patients. I will say (and I'm sure that this will be deleted in about 5 seconds) that outward empathy and compassion is less prevalent in SOME Asian medical doctors/residents than other races. I have no doubt that this mostly cultural but it impacts how they are viewed by some patients and staff members.

Now watching this get deleted in 3..2..1..

It’s probably the expression of compassion rather than the presence of compassion.

[Anonymous]

Envy and jealousy mostly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

invisibility as a racial microaggression, with one student sharing, “It took them the whole first year to be able to tell me apart from the other Asian guy.”

lol cry more.

In point of fact, I prefer Asian doctors and surgeons because they are hard-working, competent, and overcame affirmative action working against them. See, sometimes racism works in your favor!

As an ICU RN I worked side-by-side with medical students and residents for 15+ years in an academic medical center in a setting where we had many critically ill and dying patients. I will say (and I'm sure that this will be deleted in about 5 seconds) that outward empathy and compassion is less prevalent in SOME Asian medical doctors/residents than other races. I have no doubt that this mostly cultural but it impacts how they are viewed by some patients and staff members.

Now watching this get deleted in 3..2..1..

It’s probably the expression of compassion rather than the presence of compassion.

Doubt PP knows the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes apoorva (Vivek’s wife) even more impressive

Yale ug, Yale medical, ent surgeon

You know she wasn’t given any hand outs

Helps to be from super rich, well connected family

is her family super-rich and well-connected? Troy MI is not super-rich
she had to have incredible grades and test scores to get in Yale ug + med

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After the whole Vijay Chokal Ingam thing we re-evaluated some of our doctors. Stopped seeing two of them just to be cautious.

The whole lying to get into medical school thing for me is worse than struggling to get through medical school. I HAVE to be able to trust a doctor when I go in.

Sheesh I hope none of my docs pulled that crap and got away with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After the whole Vijay Chokal Ingam thing we re-evaluated some of our doctors. Stopped seeing two of them just to be cautious.

The whole lying to get into medical school thing for me is worse than struggling to get through medical school. I HAVE to be able to trust a doctor when I go in.

Sheesh I hope none of my docs pulled that crap and got away with it.

They are surely fine doctors. Vijay couldn't do the work and flunked out. If your doctor didn't flunk out then you're fine. Calm down

[Anonymous]

A branch of my family is South Asian and 90% of them are doctors. And rich. So, whatever is going on is working for them.

A young family member is applying to med school right now. She has submitted 28 med school applications. Her family is all about perseverance and hard work. Racism be d@mned. They are doing okay. (and they also don't mention racism as an issue except re: affirmative action)