How is it that a healing profession -- medicine -- has such a deeply ingrained culture of harming its own? And what can we do about it? In this first of two back-to-back episodes on medical student mistreatment we consider the scope of the problem and attempts to confront it. We hear from one medical school that, with external funding, developed a program with online resources available to any school that are designed to foster discussion and self-reflection among all stakeholders: attendings, residents, students, and other health care professionals in the ecosystem.

We share here links to resources and papers discussed in the episode:

#MDsToo: A student mistreatment prevention curriculum for faculty members and residents - PubMed (nih.gov)

To access the UC Irvine video series

JAMA IM paper

Eradicating medical student mistreatment: a longitudinal study of one institution's efforts - PubMed (nih.gov)