Alzahrani Hasan Ali
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Res Notes. 2012 Jul 2;5:335. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-335.
Bullying and sexual harassment of medical students by their teachers appears to be widespread phenomenon. However, nothing is published about its prevalence in conservative countries such as Saudi Arabia. This survey aims to ascertain the extent of these mistreatments among students in a Saudi medical school.
A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on a group of 542 clinical years' medical students in a Saudi medical school to explore students' perceptions of their educational environment including exposure to different kinds of bullying. Bullying was defined as "a "persistent behaviour against a medical student that is intimidating, degrading, offensive or malicious and undermines the confidence and self- esteem of the recipient". Results revealed that more than one quarter (28.0%) of the surveyed students reported exposure to some sort of bullying during their clinical. Ninety percent of the reported insults were verbal, 6% sexual and 4% physical. Males were more exposed but difference was not statistically significant.
Bullying among Saudi medical students is an existing problem. A policy against bullying and harassment should be adopted in all of medical colleges to monitor this phenomenon and support students who have been bullied.
医学生遭受教师的欺凌和性骚扰似乎是一种普遍现象。然而，在沙特阿拉伯等保守国家，关于其发生率的报道却很少。本次调查旨在确定沙特一所医学院校学生中此类不当对待行为的程度。
对沙特一所医学院校的542名临床医学生进行了横断面问卷调查，以了解学生对其教育环境的看法，包括遭受不同类型欺凌的情况。欺凌被定义为“针对医学生的持续行为，具有恐吓、贬低、冒犯或恶意性质，会损害受欺凌者的信心和自尊”。结果显示，超过四分之一（28.0%）的受访学生表示在临床实习期间遭受过某种形式的欺凌。报告的侮辱行为中，90%是言语上的，6%是性方面的，4%是身体上的。男生遭受欺凌的情况更多，但差异无统计学意义。
沙特医学生中的欺凌现象是一个现存问题。所有医学院校都应制定反欺凌和骚扰政策，以监测这一现象，并为遭受欺凌的学生提供支持。
