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. 2019 Dec 17;30(1):577–584. doi: 10.1007/s40670-019-00878-z

Table 1.

Medical subject headings used in search

Medline Subject Headings (MeSH) Keywords
Students, Medical/ (medic* adj2(student or students))
Education, Medical, Undergraduate/

(undergraduate* and medic* and (education or program*))

((intern or interns* or trainee or trainees) and medic*)

House officer*

Discrimination (Psychology)/ Discriminat*
Prejudice/ Prejudice*
Sexism

(sex* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-trea* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or agress* or aggress* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favo?rit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*))

(gender* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-trea* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or agress* or aggress* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favo?rit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*)).tw.

Homophobia/ Homophob*
Racism/

(racist or racist)

(racial* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favorit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*))

(ethnic* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favorit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*))

(culture* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favorit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*))

(religi* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or persecute* or aggravate* or violen* or bias* or intolerance* or favorit* or inequit* or unfair* or bigotr* or injustice* or marginali* or insensitive* or exploit*))
Stereotyping/ Stereotyp*
Ageism/ (Agist or ageist or agism or ageism)
(physical* adj2 (abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or violen* or exploit*))
(verbal* adj2 (abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or violen* or exploit*))
(academic* adj2(abus* or harass* or assault* or maltreat* or mistreat* or mis-treat* or illtreat* or ill-treat* or cruel* or hostil* or harm* or hurt* or agress* or aggress* or brutal* or injur* or violen* or exploit*))