Asian American medical students face racism, discrimination: Yale study

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.