Bullying among trainee doctors in Southern India: A questionnaire study

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-91

  Bairy, K ^a   Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, P ^b   Sivagnanam, G ^c   Saraswathi, S ^c   Sachidananda, A ^a   Shalini, A ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Humans; Medical students or physicians; Prejudice or bullying; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34249309201     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.32206     Document Type: Article

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