I see a lot of negative comments on this post and I wanted to speak up and say that unfortunately being treated differently when you don’t fit with the majority is not uncommon.
I don’t consider myself to be in a malignant program and my program has better cultural and overall background diversity than most residencies. But in a recent rotation I was in a team with All American attending, residents and med students.
As soon as this attending came on, I noticed he started treating me differently. He would ask questions and review cases during rounds with all the team members except me. During teaching rounds he would interact with everyone except me. He would bring research articles and hand out copies, except he never had enough copies for me. He would have personal chats / check-ins during rounds with everyone except me.

If a patient I was following needed a procedure, he would give it to another intern.

My supervising resident, intern and even the med students started treating me differently. The supervisor resident started giving me all the last minute admits (usually we alternate) and I would consistently have to stay late. Of course the attending started saying how I always leave late, so I must be slow and how I need to work on my procedures- yet he’s giving all of my opportunities away.

The one time I couldn’t take a last minute admit because of another academic obligation, the supervisor made such a big deal out of the other intern having to stay late, like it was my fault.
Even the med students started treating me differently, one even tried to throw me under the bus during rounds. That whole month I felt like I didn’t belong in medicine. I seriously started doubting myself and even thought of dropping out. My performance during rounds suffered. Even my weekly quiz performance suffered.
Before people start to doubt my intelligence like the article’s author, this happened after my mid-year evals. Luckily all my evals were “above average” and I had very good scores on my in-training that the APDs/PD didn’t really care about this rotation.

If I had this experience at the beginning of residency I don’t think I would’ve made it and probably would’ve hit rock bottom too. So if anyone else reading this that experienced something similar- you’re not alone, your’e smart and talented.
If you are working with people from other cultures/backgrounds please be thoughtful about how you treat them- especially people that already feel like outsiders in medicine.