Medical Resident Cut from Program Revives Discrimination Lawsuit

A California medical resident won a new trial Wednesday on gender discrimination and retaliation claims over her firing from the program after a state appellate court ruled that she had an employer-employee relationship with the hospital.

Noushin Khoiny said she was dismissed from her residency program at the St. Mary Medical Center in Southern California following the second year of a three-year program, after complaining about workplace safety and gender discrimination.

A trial court in Los Angeles sided with the hospital after being instructed that the residence program was academic in nature, and that the hospital’s academic judgment shouldn’t be ...