• Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres, Fernanda Babler, Juliana Naomy Lacerda Arakaki, Irene Yamamoto do Vale Quaresma, Abraão Deyvid Alves de Lima Barreto, SilvaAndréa Tenório Correia daATDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil., and José Eluf-Neto.
• Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
• Sao Paulo Med J. 2016 Apr 1; 134 (2): 130137130-7.

Context And ObjectiveHigh prevalence of mistreatment among medical students has been described in the worldwide literature since the 1980s. However, studies addressing the severity and recurrence of victimization and its effects on students' perceptions of their medical course are scarce. This study had the aim of estimating the prevalence of exposure to mistreatment that was considered to be severe and recurrent and its association with medical students' perceptions about their medical course.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in a medical school in São Paulo, Brazil. Three hundred and seventeen students from the first to the sixth year answered the online questionnaire.ResultsHigh prevalence of mistreatment during the course was found. Two thirds of the students considered the episodes to be severe, and around one third reported experiencing recurrent victimization. Occurences of mistreatment that the students considered to be severe were correlated with feeling overloaded and wanting to abandon the medical course.ConclusionsOccurrences of mistreatment within the academic environment are frequent in Brazil. The results suggest that mistreatment that was considered to be severe might negatively affect students' perceptions about their course.

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