Medical education
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The perception of whether a given behaviour is abusive differs between students and teachers. We speculated that attitudes towards reporting abusive and discriminatory behaviour may vary by specialty as well as by gender. ⋯ We conclude that female surgical residents and medical students undergo a process of acclimatization to the patriarchal surgical culture. As female surgeons become physician teachers they revert to a culture more similar to that of their female non-surgical colleagues. Although a process of deidealization occurs in medical training, these attitudes are not necessarily retained throughout the practising lifetime of physicians as they regain autonomy and more personal control.