Wear Delese, Aultman Julie
a Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine 4209 State Route 44, PO Box 95 Rootstown, OH 44272.
Med Educ Online. 2005 Dec;10(1):4377. doi: 10.3402/meo.v10i.4377.
Sexual harassment occurs with regularity during medical training, and it remains largely unreported. This study is one institution's attempt to understand how third and fourth-year medical students perceive and experience sexual harassment, what they believe about reporting sexual harassment, and how they believe it might be eradicated from the educational environment. We used a qualitative research method for our investigation, which would generate more specific language to use in a larger empirical study involving larger numbers of our students. We conducted five focus groups with 24 students, which yielded five categories of response obtained through a close, line-byline reading of transcribed audiotapes. In addition, we offer four recommendations to medical education researchers, deans of medical schools, and medical school accrediting bodies that may reduce the incidence of sexual harassment of medical students. While we do not make the case that the observations, explanations, and recommendations of these 24 students reflect the opinions of all medical students here or elsewhere, we do propose that they are a snapshot of one medical school's gender climate and offer a valuable foundation for further inquiry.
性骚扰在医学培训期间经常发生，而且大多未被举报。本研究是一所机构试图了解三、四年级医学生如何看待和经历性骚扰，他们对举报性骚扰有何看法，以及他们认为如何才能在教育环境中消除性骚扰。我们在调查中采用了定性研究方法，这将产生更具体的语言，以便在涉及更多本校学生的更大规模实证研究中使用。我们与24名学生进行了五次焦点小组讨论，通过逐行仔细阅读转录的录音带得出了五类回应。此外，我们向医学教育研究人员、医学院院长和医学院认证机构提出了四项建议，这些建议可能会减少医学生遭受性骚扰的发生率。虽然我们并没有声称这24名学生的观察、解释和建议反映了本校或其他地方所有医学生的意见，但我们确实认为这些是一所医学院性别氛围的一个缩影，并为进一步探究提供了宝贵的基础。
