Prevalence of Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine

Affiliations

¹ Equal Opportunity Office, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
² Department of Primary and Transmural Care, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
³ Institute of Legal Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

Sabine Jenner et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2019.

. 2019 Jan 1;179(1):108-111.

doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4859.

¹ Equal Opportunity Office, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
² Department of Primary and Transmural Care, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
³ Institute of Legal Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

This cross-sectional internet-based survey study analyzes sexual harassment among physicians in an academic tertiary referral center in Germany.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

Patients as Perpetrators of Physician Sexual Harassment.
Girgis C, Khatkhate G, Mangurian C. Girgis C, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Feb 1;179(2):279. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.7974. JAMA Intern Med. 2019. PMID: 30715112 No abstract available.
Patients as Perpetrators of Physician Sexual Harassment-Reply.
Jenner S, Oertelt-Prigione S. Jenner S, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Feb 1;179(2):279-280. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8016. JAMA Intern Med. 2019. PMID: 30715117 No abstract available.

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