Summary
Many surgical and medical groups in the UK and around the world have investigated
the existing cultures within their own workplaces. The Australian college of surgeons,
in 2015, conducted a survey that identified that bullying, harassment, sexual harassment
and discrimination were endemic.
Unsurprisingly this culture persists, and not only produces a workforce which underperforms
but leads to continuous poor behaviour and substandard clinical outcomes for patients.
PLASTA, in collaboration with BAPRAS, adopted the Royal College of Australian Surgeons
survey (RACS) to sample our own plastic surgery community, at all grades. We present
the results here and our suggestions for addressing these issues in the following
editorial.
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Publication history
Published online: March 29, 2022
Accepted:
February 15,
2022
Received:
January 14,
2022
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© 2022 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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