2022 SAEMF/ADIEM Research Grant - $4,000

“Anti-Asian Discrimination and Burnout on Asian American Medical Students" 

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a mental toll on physicians. Asian American  healthcare providers have also experienced an alarming increase in racism and racially motivated violence since the start of the pandemic – Anti-Asian hate. Asian American medical students are an incredibly heterogenous population that are vulnerable to exposure to racially motivated violence in the clinical setting. This mixed-methods study will investigate the mental health of and the effect of racism on Asian American medical students.


Recipient

  • David Yang, MD

    Research and EMS Fellow

    Yale University

    David Yang, MD, is a Research and EMS Fellow in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering and BSAS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University. He recently completed his emergency medicine residency at Yale Department of Emergency Medicine. Nationally, he has served on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with SAEM. At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee and as an Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) mentor. His current research focuses on addressing disparities of care in three domains: discrimination that healthcare workers face in the clinical setting, disparities in care for survivors of sexual assault, and prehospital disparities in care for behavioral emergencies.