Doctors from Indian and other ethnic minority communities in Britain are less likely to be promoted to senior hospital jobs, a latest medical investigation found.
White doctors are three times more likely to be selected for senior hospital jobs than doctors from ethnic minorities, the investigation found.
According to the Independent, Black doctors were the least likely to secure consultant, specialist or trust doctor roles in 2012, according to the BMJ Careers journal.
It revealed that White candidates for the same jobs in 50 NHS trusts in England had success rates of nearly 14 percent.
Mixed ethnicity and Asian doctors were also much less likely to secure senior positions than their white colleagues.
Another paper found that ethnic minority doctors were much more likely to fail the exam required to practice as a GP, the report said.
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According to the report, the researchers said they 'cannot exclude subjective bias owing to racial discrimination in the marking of the clinical skills assessment' as a reason for the discrepancy.
The BMJ Careers investigation found only 4.8 percent of applicants to senior doctor roles from ethnic minority backgrounds were successful in 2012, the report added.