Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership
“Working hard and having all kinds of accomplishments may get you ... a faculty appointment, but it doesn’t get you into the C-suite,” said one Asian American doctor.
For 15 years, orthopedic surgeon Charles S. Day has been working to highlight the striking lack of diversity in his field, publishing studies showing orthopedics had the fewest Black, Hispanic, and female residents of any surgical specialty.
Day himself is Asian American, a group that’s abundant in medicine. But as he dug further, his datasets and personal experiences began to collide. He found that white doctors were more than four times as likely as their Asian American colleagues to be promoted to medical school department chair positions in a wide array of medical specialties, and that Black and brown doctors were more than twice as likely as Asians to be promoted.
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