BMJ 2002;324:878-879 ( 13 April )

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Workplace bullying in junior doctors: questionnaire survey

Lyn Quine, reader in health psychology. 

Centre for Research in Health Behaviour, Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NP

L.Quine@ukc.ac.uk

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In the United Kingdom a growing literature has identified workplace bullying as a major occupational stressor among health professionals. A study carried out in an NHS community trust found that 1 in 3 staff reported being bullied in the previous year,1 while a report by the King's Fund, an independent health think tank, found that bullying, racial harassment, and discrimination were daily experiences for black and Asian doctors. In the United States several studies have reported that medical students suffer high levels of mistreatment or bullying during training, which increase with progression through medical school, spilling over into the early training years.2-4 We report here findings from a study of workplace bullying among junior doctors in the United Kingdom.


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An anonymous questionnaire was sent out with BMA News Review to 1000 doctors with job grades from house officer to senior registrar, randomly selected from the BMA members' mailing list. The questionnaire collected information . . . [Full text of this article]
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