Bullying among doctors in training: cross sectional questionnaire survey

In a survey of UK doctors in training, 37% said they had been bullied during the past year. To understand the problem better, Paice et al investigated how commonly doctors in training experienced persistent and serious bullying, who were the sources of this behavior, and what action was taken to dea...

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Published inBMJ Vol. 329; no. 7467; pp. 658 - 659
Main Authors Paice, Elisabeth, Aitken, Maryanne, Houghton, Anita, Firth-Cozens, Jenny
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 18.09.2004
British Medical Association
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Publishing Group
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
EditionInternational edition
Subjects
Bioethics
Biological and medical sciences
Bullying
Cross sectional studies
Education, Medical, Continuing - statistics & numerical data
General aspects
Health surveys
Humans
Job training
London
Medical residencies
Medical sciences
Physicians - psychology
Questionnaires
Self esteem
Social Behavior
Surveys and Questionnaires
Work environment
Workplace bullying
London
United Kingdom
UK
Medicine
Bullying
Survey
Questionnaire
Surveillance
Psychological harassment
Empirical Approach
Bioethics and Professional Ethics
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Summary:In a survey of UK doctors in training, 37% said they had been bullied during the past year. To understand the problem better, Paice et al investigated how commonly doctors in training experienced persistent and serious bullying, who were the sources of this behavior, and what action was taken to deal with it.
Bibliography:Correspondence to: E Paice
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Funding: No external funding.
Ethical approval: Not required.
Competing interests: The London Deanery is reponsible for quality assurance of training in the area concerned.
Five tables of further data about the respondents and their responses are on bmj.com
This article was posted on bmj.com on 15 July 2004: http://bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.38133.502569.AE
Correspondence to: E Paice epaice@londondeanery.ac.uk
We thank Ray Flux of CivilEyes, who conducted the survey.
Contributors: EP planned the study, analysed the results, and drafted the paper; she is also the guarantor. MA managed the survey and collected the results. AH and JF-C commented on the plans and helped with the final draft.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.38133.502569.AE