Substance use rates among medical students and resident physicians

Article Abstract:

When the public's well-being is jeopardized by an individual's substance use, that person must be held accountable. Substance use among physicians clearly has important ramifications for their patients. Medicine must police its practitioners, or society will do so. Recent studies of medical students and physicians in training, such as the ones reported in the April 24, 1991 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, demonstrate that substance use does take place in the medical profession, albeit at a lower rate than among nonphysicians of a similar age. These studies show that self-prescribing of legal substances often starts during residency training, when physicians are more likely to encounter problems with depression than are their peers. Since peer pressure still occurs among physicians in training, efforts should be made to ensure that the prevailing standard of behavior is against substance use. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

Drug use, Drug abuse, Residents (Medicine), editorial

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Prevalence of Harassment and Discrimination Among 1996 Medical School Graduates: A Survey of Eight US Schools

Article Abstract:

Many medical students still experience discrimination and harassment in medical school. A 1996 survey of 548 graduating students at four public and four private US medical schools found that 46% reported some type of harassment and 41% reported some type of discrimination from instructors or supervisors during their education. About 40% reported nonsexual verbal harassment and 10% reported sexual verbal harassment. Twenty-nine percent experienced discrimination based on gender and 12% experienced discrimination based on race.

Statistics, Discrimination in education, Educational discrimination

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