Citation

Silver HK, Glicken AD. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 1990; 263(4): 527-532.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver 80262.

Comment In:

JAMA 1992;268(8):984-5.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2294324

Abstract

In a survey of the incidence, severity, and significance of medical student abuse as perceived by the student population of one major medical school, 46.4% of all respondents stated that they had been abused at some time while enrolled in medical school, with 80.6% of seniors reporting being abused by the senior year. More than two thirds (69.1%) of those abused reported that at least one of the episodes they experienced was of "major importance and very upsetting." Half (49.6%) of the students indicated that the most serious episode of abuse affected them adversely for a month or more; 16.2% said that it would "always affect them." Students identified various types of abuse and proposed a number of measures for the prevention and management of abuse in medical school. We conclude that medical student abuse was perceived by these students to be a significant cause of stress and should be a major concern of those involved with medical student education.

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