Abstract

PAREDES, OLGA LUCÍA; SANABRIA-FERRAND, PABLO-ALFONSO; GONZALEZ-QUEVEDO, LUIS ARTEMO  and  MORENO REHALPE, SANDRA PATRICIA. BULLYING IN COLOMBIAN MEDICINE FALCULTIES: MITO OU REALIDADEMYTH OR REALITY. rev.fac.med [online]. 2010, vol.18, n.2, pp.161-172. ISSN 0121-5256.

Research on bullying or intimidation have mainly focus in the elementary and secondary education, while few have been conducted on superior education and even less in the health programs. This article presents the results of a study designed to identify and to characterise the presence of bullying in undergraduate students of 22 medicine faculties of Colombia, as a contribution for the generation of quality policies underproducate for the medical education in this country. A transversal, descriptive and comparative design was used, with a probabilistic sample of 1,500 undergraduate students of the first ten semesters. The general prevalence found for bullyng was of 19,68% (IC 95%= 17,5-22,32). The areas of higher prevalence were the coast (28,01%, IC95%= 22,53-33,48), the eastern zone (26,29, IC95%=21,38-31,19) and the central zone (23,56, IC95%= 17,40-29,71). The bullies were lecturers and class mates and the most common form was intimidation by humiliation of verbal type. Non significant differences were found among different types of universities, the gender or coursed semesters. Evidences are presented supporting that bullying is a reality not a myth, and hence it must be a matter of attention for faculties and hospitals, since it is affecting the dynamics of interpersonal relationship, the permanence in the program, the academic performance, the productivity and even the health of the practitioners and their patients. For all these reasons, it becomes imperative to develop intervention programs in preventing and handling of bullying behaviours in the medicine faculties.

Keywords : medical students; bullying; violence.

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