‘Inexcusable’: Medical training of 486 trainee doctors badly affected by bullying, harassment and discrimination
The chair of the medical board says there is a 'critical and urgent' need for action.
“It’s inexcusable.”
These are the words used by the chair of the Medical Board of Australia last week to describe the fact that 35% of medical trainees experienced or witnessed bullying, harassment, discrimination and/or racism [*] during the previous 12 months.
Dr Anne Tonkin stressed a “critical and urgent” need for action to address what she described as the “ongoing fault line in the culture of medicine”.
The figure should be robust.
