Diverse Docket: Judge Sides With Yale in Discrimination Suit - Higher Education: A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected race and gender discrimination claims by an African-American doctor who was terminated from Yale University’s obstetrics and gynecology residency program, finding that the university had a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for its action.
The suit came from Dr. Anthony Craig, who was one of three African-Americans among the six residents admitted to the program in 2008. They were selected from a field of 363 candidates, Yale said in court filings.
Craig signed a one-year employment contract with Yale’s medical school. During his first months, he received sharply negative performance evaluations, with some attending physicians failing him and with others reporting that they would be uncomfortable with his treating their patients unsupervised.
