Wear Delese, Aultman Julie M, Borges Nicole J
Behavioral Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio 44272, USA.
Teach Learn Med. 2007 Winter;19(1):20-9. doi: 10.1080/10401330709336619.
The literature consistently reports that sexual harassment occurs with regularity in medical education, mostly in clinical settings, and most of it goes unreported. Reasons for nonreporting include the fear of retaliation, a reluctance to be viewed as a victim, a fear that one is being "too sensitive," and the belief that nothing will be done.
We wanted to examine with greater concentration the stories women students tell about sexual harassment, including what they count as sexual harassment, for more or different clues to their persistent nonreporting.
We used focus groups to interview 30 women students at 5 U.S. medical schools. We used systematic inductive guidelines to analyze the transcribed data, linking to and building new theoretical frameworks to provide an interpretive understanding of the lived experiences of the women in our study.
Consistent with previous literature, most of the students interviewed had either witnessed or observed sexual harassment. We selected 2 theoretical lenses heretofore not used to explain responses to sexual harassment: 3rd-wave feminist theory to think about how current women students conceive sexual harassment and personality theory to explain beliefs about nonreporting.
Medical educators need new ways to understand how contemporary women students define and respond to sexual harassment.
文献一直报道性骚扰在医学教育中经常发生，大多发生在临床环境中，且大部分未被举报。不举报的原因包括害怕报复、不愿被视为受害者、担心自己“过于敏感”以及认为不会有任何结果。
我们希望更深入地研究女学生讲述的性骚扰故事，包括她们所认为的性骚扰行为，以寻找她们持续不举报的更多或不同线索。
我们通过焦点小组访谈了美国5所医学院的30名女学生。我们使用系统的归纳指南来分析转录数据，关联并构建新的理论框架，以对我们研究中女性的生活经历提供解释性理解。
与先前文献一致，大多数接受访谈的学生都曾目睹或观察到性骚扰行为。我们选择了两个此前未用于解释对性骚扰反应的理论视角：第三波女权主义理论，以思考当前女学生如何看待性骚扰；人格理论，以解释关于不举报的信念。
医学教育工作者需要新的方式来理解当代女学生如何定义和应对性骚扰。
