Foreign NHS doctors face persistent racism at work, survey finds

International medical graduates working as doctors in the NHS in the UK experience persistent racist microaggressions at work and don’t trust their employers to deal with the problem, a survey has found.The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) polled over 2000 of its members, including 519 international medical graduates (IMGs), in its annual survey.1 Three fifths (58%) of IMGs who responded said they had experienced thinly veiled, everyday incidents of racism since they began practising medicine in the UK. But in a separate MDDUS survey of over 2000 members of the public just 9% said they believed that racist microaggressions were a very common problem in the NHS. Less than a fifth (19%) claimed to have witnessed it.Naeem Nazem, head of medical at MDDUS, said, “Microaggressions are the most common form of covert, interpersonal racism and are often minimised as simple verbal mistakes or cultural missteps. Studies have…
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