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Altering workplace attitudes for resident education (A.W.A.R.E.): discovering solutions for medical resident bullying through literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, April 2016
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Title
Altering workplace attitudes for resident education (A.W.A.R.E.): discovering solutions for medical resident bullying through literature review
Published in
BMC Medical Education, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0639-8
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Authors

Heather B. Leisy, Meleha Ahmad

Abstract

Physicians-in-training are challenged every day with grueling academic requirements, job strain, and patient safety concerns. Residency shapes the skills and values that will percolate to patient care and professional character. Unfortunately, impediments to the educational process due to medical resident mistreatment by bullying remain highly prevalent in training today. A PubMed literature review was undertaken using key terms to help define resident mistreatment by bullying, determine its prevalence, identify its potential causes and sequelae, and find suggestions for changing this detrimental culture of medical training. We identified 62 relevant articles. The most frequently noted form of mistreatment was verbal abuse, with the most common perpetrators being fellow physicians of higher hierarchical power. Mistreatment exists due to its cyclical nature and the existing culture of medical training. These disruptive behaviors affect the wellbeing of both medical residents and patients. This article highlights the importance of creating systems that educate physicians-in-training about professional mistreatment by bullying and the imperative in recognizing and correcting these abuses. Resident bullying leads to increased resident stress, decreased resident wellbeing as well as risks to patient safety and increased healthcare costs. Solutions include education of healthcare team members, committee creation, regulation of feedback, and creation of a zero-tolerance policy focused on the health of both patients and residents. Altering workplace attitudes will diminish the detrimental effects that bullying has on resident training.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 227 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 9%
Student > Master 20 9%
Student > Postgraduate 19 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 7%
Other 58 26%
Unknown 65 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 84 37%
Psychology 23 10%
Social Sciences 13 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 3%
Other 20 9%
Unknown 69 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2023.
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#857,807
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#60
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#14,948
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#3
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