Stories from the field: Students' descriptions of gender discrimination and sexual harassment during medical school

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 648-654

  Witte, Florence M ^a   Stratton, Terry D ^b   Nora, Lois Margaret ^c  

^a AdvancMed   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXISM; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STEREOTYPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747745770     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ACM.0000232421.04170.d2     Document Type: Article

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