Patterns of medical student abuse during the internal medicine clerkship

Analysis and Publication Rates of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) Annual Meeting Abstracts 1995–2005

“…A substantial number of articles reflected collaboration and joint effort on the part of the members of CDIM that become multiinstitutional or cross-institutional studies. [8][9][10] Our study affirms the points by Cook et al that medical education focuses on observation and justification but omits the middle steps of the scientific method (model formulation and theory building and predictions). Clarifying studies that used a theoretical framework or described a conceptual model were seldom presented.…”

Medical Students' Perspectives on and Responses to Abuse During the Internal Medicine Clerkship

“…At some schools, what constituted abuse had been defined clearly by administration or clerkship directors, but at other schools this was not the case. 3 The hierarchy of medical schools remains largely male dominated and appears to affect some women students in ways more complex than overt sexual harassment. 4 As in previous studies, women were more likely to feel abused than men in our study.…”

“…3 For analysis purposes, races were divided into White, Asian, Hispanic, African American, and other. The survey's initial questions were about demographic issues (age, sex, race).…”

Experiences of mistreatment among medical students in a University in south west Nigeria

“…[1] Medical student abuse is an international phenomenon that has been documented by several studies. [2][3][4][5][6] Reports from medical schools in the United States, [3][4][5] Pakistan, [2] Finland, [7] Spain, [8] Israel, [9] and Australia [10] indicate that it occurs frequently. The overall prevalence of abuse ranges from 74% to 98%, with verbal abuse being the most common form ranging from 87% to 98%.…”