'Am I being oversensitive?' Women's experience of sexual harassment during medical training

Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-127

  Hinze, Susan W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Hostile environment; Medical training; Physicians; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; TRAINING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITY; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSTILITY; HUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASSERTIVENESS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUTHORITARIANISM; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NARRATION; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 0842333917     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459304038799     Document Type: Review

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