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. 2013 Feb 8;3(2):e002076. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002076

Table 1.

Medical trainee reporting different types of mistreatment according to sex

♂+♀ (N=58) ♂ (N=28) ♀ (N=30)
Verbal abuse
 Shouted at you 29 (50%) 14 (50%) 15 (50%)
 Belittled or humiliated you during meetings or rounds 32 (55.2%) 17 (60.7%) 15 (50%)
 Spoke to you unrespectfully 27 (46.6%) 13 (46.4%) 14 (46.7%)
Physical abuse or threats
 Threatened you with physical harms 7 (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 activities 17 (29.3%) 10 (35.7%) 7 (23.3%)
 Your questions/queries were intentionally not answered 17 (29.3%) 11 (39.3%) 6 (20.0%)
 You were forced to refer patients without providing reasonable cause for referral 30 (51.7%) 15 (53.6%) 15 (50%)
 You were ask to take consent from very complicated cases 27 (46.6%) 16 (57.1%) 11 (36.7%)
 You were threatened with failure or giving poor evaluations for reasons unrelated to your academic performance 15 (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 figure 7 (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.