Medical students’ experiences with sexual discrimination and perceptions of equal opportunity: a pilot study in Germany

Jendretzky, Konstantin Fritz; Boll, Lukas; Steffens, Sandra; Paulmann, Volker

doi:10.1186/s12909-020-1952-9

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“…We found that SH behaviors are twice as likely to be experienced by students identifying as female, consistent with multiple previous studies that female students experienced SH two to three times more often than their male peers [ 4 , 23 , 24 ]. Similar frequency for experiencing SH (most commonly 1–3 times in the past year) was reported by both sexes, suggesting that though incidents are more likely to ever occur for females, incidents are infrequent in any given year.…”

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Sexual harassment from patient to medical student: a cross-sectional survey

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Background There is little existing research investigating SH/SA specifically from patients to students. This study aims to assess the prevalence and impact of SH and SA from patient to medical student. Methods A cross-sectional survey study was administered via electronic email list to all current medical students at the University of Washington School of Medicine (n = 1183) over a two-week period in 2019. The survey questions addressed respondents’ experiences with SH/SA from patients, frequency of reporting, and impact on feelings of burnout. Results Three hundred eleven responses were received for a response rate of 26%; 268 complete responses were included in the final analysis. Overall, 56% of respondents reported ever experiencing SH from a patient. SH from a patient was reported by significantly more of those who identify as female compared to male (66% vs 31%; p < .001). Similar frequency of experiencing SH within the last year were reported by females and males (90% vs 88%; p = .96). Clinical students were more likely to have ever experienced SH compared to preclinical students (61% vs 39%; p < .001). The majority (86%) of respondents who experienced SH/SA did not report it in an official capacity. Those who identify as female were more likely to report that SH from a patient contributed to feelings of burnout (21% vs 5% for male; p = .02). Behaviors consistent with SA were experienced by 16% of respondents, with similar frequency between females and males. Conclusions This study demonstrates that patient to medical student SH/SA is a common occurrence, particularly among students identifying as female. It also highlights the significant impact of SH/SA incidents on feelings of burnout.

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confidence: 92%

Sexual harassment from patient to medical student: a cross-sectional survey

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“…In Germany, for example, a study based on a survey of medical students found that women who had witnessed or experienced sexual harassment during their training were more likely than women who had not to decide against pursuing surgical specialties, which typically provide among the highest pay. 35 Moreover, given the especially high rates of sexual harassment of women in male-dominated industries, job loss triggered by sexual harassment has the potential to reinforce occupational segregation, thus widening the gender pay gaps discussed in chapter 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination

Heymann¹,

Sprague²,

Raub³

2023

Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide

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When Jeanette Moznik and six other women joined the fire department in Richmond, British Columbia, after a merger of two units in 1995, they made history: never before had any women served as firefighters with Richmond Fire-Rescue. 1 Unfortunately, it wasn't long before their male colleagues ensured they felt not only unwelcome but unsafe. The men in the department displayed pornography on the walls. Moznik found a condom filled with an unidentified substance in her locker, accompanied by a threatening note using a misogynistic slur. 2 The men put human feces in her boots and pants. And on one occasion, they cut the water pressure to the hoses she and another female firefighter were using during a live fire. 3 Finally, in 2005, Moznik filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, alleging "a culture of systemic discrimination and harassment of its female firefighters. " 4 In 2006, the court dismissed her suit, determining that it lacked jurisdiction since her union ought to handle the grievance. Later that year, a mediator published a report that called out the toxic environment and urged a series of practical reforms, such as trainings on equality and harassment and separate washrooms for the female firefighters, while underscoring the need for steps leading to an overall culture change. 5 The mediator's report seems to have had some impact. Between 2007 and 2019, the department began recruiting more women, who accounted for 17 percent of total hires. 6 Nevertheless, for Moznik and the other women who joined Richmond Fire-Rescue in 1995, the damage had been done. By the time the report was issued,

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“…This mistreatment can have important consequences for women’s career trajectories. For example, German women medical students experience harassment three times more often than men and are thus more likely to rule out certain specialties, like surgery (Jendretzky et al 2020). Unequal treatment persists into residency, where senior women trainees in emergency medicine are evaluated more critically than men with the same level of competence, pointing to a persistent and evolving bias against women, particularly as they progress through their training, because that bias did not exist among junior trainees (Brewer et al 2020; Mueller et al 2017).…”

Section: Stratification In the Professionmentioning

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The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future

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From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically map onto earlier projects in this subfield while driving theoretical development elsewhere in the larger discipline: (1) professional socialization, (2) knowledge regimes, (3) stratification within the profession, and (4) sociology of the field of medical education. We then offer six potential future directions where more research is needed: (1) inequalities in medical education, (2) socialization across the life course and new institutional forms of gatekeeping, (3) provider well-being, (4) globalization, (5) medical education as knowledge-based work, and (6) effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Medical students’ experiences with sexual discrimination and perceptions of equal opportunity: a pilot study in Germany

Cited by 22 publications

References 38 publications

Sexual harassment from patient to medical student: a cross-sectional survey

Sexual harassment from patient to medical student: a cross-sectional survey

Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination

The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to Our Roots and an Agenda for the Future

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