Self-Reported Patient-Perpetrated Sexual Harassment Among the US Urological Workforce

Are urology trainees and female urologists more likely to experience and witness patient-perpetrated sexual harassment?In this national cross-sectional cohort study of 1467 clinicians, 41.8% of female clinicians and 21.4% of trainees experienced patient-perpetrated sexual harassment. However, in adjusted models, trainees and advanced practice providers were less likely to experience and witness patient-perpetrated sexual harassment compared with practicing urologists.These findings suggest that experiencing and witnessing patient-perpetrated sexual harassment is mostly driven by clinician sex (eg, being a female clinician) and further highlights the pervasiveness of patient-perpetrated sexual harassment for female clinicians in the urological workforce.

Corresponding Author: Catherine S. Nam, MD, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, SPC 5330, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-5330 (namcs@med.umich.edu).

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