Table 1

Medical trainee reporting different types of mistreatment according to sex

♂+♀ (N=58)♂ (N=28)♀ (N=30)
Verbal abuse
 Shouted at you29 (50%)14 (50%)15 (50%)
 Belittled or humiliated you during meetings or rounds32 (55.2%)17 (60.7%)15 (50%)
 Spoke to you unrespectfully27 (46.6%)13 (46.4%)14 (46.7%)
Physical abuse or threats
 Threatened you with physical harms7 (12.1%)3 (10.7%)4 (13.3%)
Academic abuse
 You were asked to carry out some personal services unrelated to patient care or educational activities17 (29.3%)10 (35.7%)7 (23.3%)
 Your questions/queries were intentionally not answered17 (29.3%)11 (39.3%)6 (20.0%)
 You were forced to refer patients without providing reasonable cause for referral30 (51.7%)15 (53.6%)15 (50%)
 You were ask to take consent from very complicated cases27 (46.6%)16 (57.1%)11 (36.7%)
 You were threatened with failure or giving poor evaluations for reasons unrelated to your academic performance15 (25.9%)11 (39.3%)4 (13.3%)
Sexual harassment
 Received jokes or comments against your gender (M/F)9 (15.5%)5 (17.9%)4 (13.3%)
 Received compliments or comments about your body or figure7 (12.1%)2 (7.1%)5 (16.7%)
 Faced with an offensive body language (eg, repeated leering and standing too close)7 (12.1%)1 (3.6%)6 (20.0%)
  • ♂, male; ♀, female.