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Table 2 Discrimination during medical training

From: Latinas in medicine: evaluating and understanding the experience of Latinas in medical education: a cross sectional survey

Scenarios

Overall,

n (%)

(n = 230)

Setting

Medical School

Residency

Fellowship

Job

Negative experience with patients or patients’ family members, n = 209

114 (54.5%)

    

Discrimination by others in medicine, n = 202

147 (72.8%)

93 (63.3%)

60 (40.8%)

34 (23.1%)

43 (29.3%)

Basis of the discrimination n = 147

     

 Race/Ethnicity

42 (28.9%)

    

 Gender

16 (11.0%)

    

 Age

1 (0.7%)

    

 Combination of above

83 (56.5%)

    

 Other

6 (4.1%)

    

Discrimination event reported, n = 147

26 (17.7%)

    

Being mistaken for another Latin colleague, n = 208

127 (61.1%)

80 (63%)

60 (47.2%)

29 (22.8%)

37 (29.1%)

Being mistaken for another role (not med student/doctor), n = 211

179 (84.8%)

131 (73.2%)

86 (48%)

43 (24%)

62 (34.6%)

Asked to translate for another provider, n = 210

184 (87.6%)