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- Title
Family Medicine Clerkship Directors' Handling of Student Mistreatment: Results From a CERA Survey.
- Authors
Huang, William Y.; Purkiss, Joel; Eden, Aimee R.; Appelbaum, Nital
- Abstract
<bold>Background and Objectives: </bold>Little is known about how family medicine clerkship directors (FMCDs) handle reports of student mistreatment. We investigated FMCDs' involvement in handling and resolving these reports.<bold>Methods: </bold>We collected data as part of the 2019 CERA survey of FMCDs. FMCDs provided responses on how they handled student mistreatment reports and their comfort level in resolving these reports.<bold>Results: </bold>Ninety-nine out of 142 FMCDs (69.7%) responded to the survey. Regarding mistreatment reports, 24.2% of FMCDs had received at least one report of student mistreatment about full-time faculty in the past 3 years, compared to 64.6% of FMCDs receiving at least one report about community preceptors (P<.001). Regarding who determined the response to the mistreatment, 13.1% of FMCDs were the highest level of leadership responsible for stopping use of a full-time faculty member for mistreatment concerns, while 42.4% of FMCDs were the highest level of leadership responsible for stopping use of a community preceptor. Regarding their comfort level in resolving mistreatment reports, 59.1% of FMCDs were either somewhat or very comfortable resolving a mistreatment report about a community preceptor, while only 48.9% reported those comfort levels for full-time faculty. FMCDs who had previously stopped using full-time faculty and/or community preceptors due to mistreatment reports were less likely to feel comfortable with resolving reports about full-time faculty compared to those who had no such experience (P=.03).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>FMCDs more frequently receive mistreatment reports about community preceptors than full-time faculty and are more likely to be the highest decision maker to stop using a community preceptor for mistreatment concerns. Further study is needed to elucidate factors that affect FMCDs' comfort in handling student mistreatment reports.
- Publication
Family Medicine, 2020, Vol 52, Issue 5, p324
- ISSN
0742-3225
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.22454/FamMed.2020.409025