Marginalized identities, mistreatment, discrimination, and burnout among US medical students: cross sectional survey and retrospective cohort study.

Autor: Teshome BG; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.; Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA, USA., Desai MM; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA., Gross CP; Department of Internal Medicine, National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Hill KA; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Li F; Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA., Samuels EA; Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA., Wong AH; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Xu Y; Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA., Boatright DH; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMJ (Clinical research ed.) [BMJ] 2022 Mar 22; Vol. 376, pp. e065984. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 22.
DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-065984
Abstrakt: Objective: To describe the association between mistreatment, burnout, and having multiple marginalized identities during undergraduate medical education.
Design: Cross sectional survey and retrospective cohort study.
Setting: 140 US medical schools accredited by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Participants: 30 651 graduating medical students in 2016 and 2017.
Main Outcome Measures: Self-reported sex, race or ethnicity, and sexual orientation groups were considered, based on the unique combinations of historically marginalized identities held by students. Multivariable linear regression was used to determine the association between unique identity groups and burnout along two dimensions (exhaustion and disengagement) as measured by the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory for Medical Students while accounting for mistreatment and discrimination.
Results: Students with three marginalized identities (female; non-white; lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB)) had the largest proportion reporting recurrent experiences of multiple types of mistreatment (88/299, P<0.001) and discrimination (92/299, P<0.001). Students with a higher number of marginalized identities also had higher average scores for exhaustion. Female, non-white, and LGB students had the largest difference in average exhaustion score compared with male, white, and heterosexual students (adjusted mean difference 1.96, 95% confidence interval 1.47 to 2.44). Mistreatment and discrimination mediated exhaustion scores for all identity groups but did not fully explain the association between unique identity group and burnout. Non-white and LGB students had higher average disengagement scores than their white and heterosexual counterparts (0.28, 0.19 to 0.37; and 0.73, 0.52 to 0.94; respectively). Female students, in contrast, had lower average disengagement scores irrespective of the other identities they held. After adjusting for mistreatment and discrimination among female students, the effect among female students became larger, indicating a negative confounding association.
Conclusion: In this study population of US medical students, those with multiple marginalized identities reported more mistreatment and discrimination during medical school, which appeared to be associated with burnout.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Josiah Macy Jr Foundation, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation/Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges’ Northeast Group on Educational Affairs, and US National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
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