America’s Medical Profession Has a Sexual Harassment Problem

For medical students, the path to becoming a licensed doctor is filled with obstacles—brutal classes, insane hours and six-figure debt which can take decades to pay back.

For women, there’s often an additional challenge: the risk of becoming a victim of sexual misconduct. While such wrongdoing can occur in any educational or professional setting, the danger is significantly greater when it comes to the training of American physicians. Much of this is tied to the stakes—medical students have close to a decade of advanced education, critical career opportunities and even financial survival hanging in the balance.