• Nancy Bastías-Vega, Cristhian Pérez-Villalobos, Débora Alvarado-Figueroa, Mary-Jane Schilling-Norman, Maritza Espinoza-Riffo, Paula Parra-Ponce, Olga Matus-Betanocurt, and Josselinne Toirkens-Niklitschek.
• Departamento de Educación Médica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
• Rev Med Chil. 2021 Apr 1; 149 (4): 617-625.

BackgroundAlarms about mistreatment in medical education have been raised for almost 30 years.AimTo describe the frequency of abuse reports among medical students at a university in Chile, investigating their association with age, sex, and educational level.Material And MethodsThe Mistreatment by Teachers Questionnaire was applied to 264 first to seventh year medical students (54% males). An exploratory factorial analysis of the instrument was performed, a descriptive analysis was made and its relationship with age, sex and level of training were evaluated.ResultsNinety eight percent of respondents reported having been mistreated at least once. Mistreatment was grouped into three factors with a confidence ranging between α = 0.79 and 0.93, namely demoralization, deregulated demands and physical aggression. The first two were associated with age and level of education. There were no differences by sex.ConclusionsMistreatment is common in undergraduate medical education, as it has been found in other universities around the world.

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