title: Do attending physicians, nurses, residents, and medical students agree on what constitutes medical student abuse?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Whether attending physicians, residents, nurses, and medical students agree on what constitutes medical student abuse, its severity, or influencing factors is unknown.
  
  
  METHODS
  We surveyed 237 internal medicine attending physicians, residents, medical students, and nurses at 13 medical schools after viewing five vignettes depicting potentially abusive behaviors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The majority of each group felt the belittlement, ethnic insensitivity, and sexual harassment scenarios represented abuse but that excluding a student from participating in a procedure did not. Only a majority of attending physicians considered the negative feedback scenario as abuse. Medical students rated abuse severity significantly lower than other groups in the belittlement scenario (p<.05). Respondents who felt abused as students were more likely to rate behaviors as abusive (p<.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The groups generally agree on what constitutes abuse, but attending physicians and those abused as students may perceive more behaviors as abusive.
authors.affiliation: Texas A & M University, 2401 South 31 Street, Temple, TX 76508, USA. pogden@swmail.sw.org
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Ogden
authors.forename: Edward H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Elnicki
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Battistone
authors.forename: Lynn M
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authors.lastname: Cleary
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Fagan
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gliatto
authors.forename: Heather E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Harrell
authors.forename: May S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.forename: Cynthia H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Ledford
authors.forename: Alex J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mechaber
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mintz
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: Matthew R
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authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Raymond Y
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authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D017406:Sexual Harassment; D012919:Social Behavior; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014743:Videotape Recording