Examples

Differential attainment across the life cycle of an obstetrics and gynaecology doctor. Racially minoritised doctors are less likely to be selected for entry to medical school, less likely to be recruited into foundation training and O&G training. Less likely to obtain subspecialist training or be appointed to a substantive consultant post.

Criminal justice system: Black people are 10 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police. Minoritised people are more likely to be sentenced and sent to jail for drug offences, compared to white counterparts who have committed the same crime.

Airhihenbuwa joins the O&G department in Devon. She is constantly asked whether she has a nickname, because her colleagues find her name too long and difficult to pronounce.

Bola is working in the OPD clinics and is reviewing Mrs Brown. Two minutes into the conversation, Mrs Brown demands to see another doctor – she doesn’t like or trust 'foreigners', and cannot understand Bola’s accent.

Explanation: this is a form of 'othering' and microaggression.

An example of interpersonal racism is racist chanting at football grounds, or fear to travel to certain events or parts of the country for fear of racist abuse or attacks.

Rashi is approaching the end of her ST5 year. She would like to apply for subspecialty training in fetal medicine, but she has never heard of an Asian person successfully applying for sub spec.
She has also witnessed bullying and undermining of Brown people within her department. In order not to stand out, she keeps her head down and just continues with training, shelving her desires to subspecialise in fetal medicine.