Discrimination Experiences Among Medical Students

What is the association of general, gender-based, and race-based discrimination with students’ disability status, sex, race, and ethnicity during medical school?Among 45 705 graduating medical students in this cross-sectional study, Asian, Black, and Hispanic female students with disability were more likely to report general and race-based discrimination than White male students without disability. White and Asian female students with disability were more likely to report gender-based discrimination than White male students without disability.These findings suggest that students with disabilities with intersecting identities experience different types of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and sex, emphasizing the importance of addressing multiple, overlapping forms of discrimination in medical education.

Corresponding Author: Mytien Nguyen, MS, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510 (mytien.nguyen@yale.edu).

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