Available online 16 September 2025

Author links open overlay panel, , Section snippetsAUTHOR CONTRIBUTION

SJ and AO contributed to the investigation and drafted the manuscript. HY contributed to the conception, investigation, supervision, and revision of the manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declared no conflict of interest.

FUNDING STATEMENT

No funding was received for this work.

REFERENCES (11)P.T. Yu et al.Minorities struggle to advance in academic medicine: A 12-y review of diversity at the highest levels of America’s teaching institutions

J Surg Res

(2013)

J. HyunBreaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians

(2005)

O. Gong et al.Forging the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’: A narrative review on the impact to the advancement of Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in medicine

Am J Med

(2025)

M. Ko et al.Asian American Diversity and Representation in the Health Care Workforce, 2007 to 2022

JAMA Netw Open

(2024)

JG. LuA creativity stereotype perspective on the Bamboo Ceiling: Low perceived creativity explains the underrepresentation of East Asian leaders in the United States

J Appl Psychol

(2024)

There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

View full text

© 2025 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.