Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine in Germany

JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jun 2;8(6):e2518237. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.18237.

Vera Clemens^{1

2}, Marco Kuchenbaur^{1

3}, Claire Richter¹, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione^{4

5}, Svenja Taubner^{6

7}, Jörg M Fegert^{1

2}

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
² German Center for Mental Health, Partner Site Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
³ Medical Didactics and Education Research, Department of Medical Education, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
⁴ Sex and Gender Sensitive Medicine, Medical Faculty Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
⁵ Department of Primary and Transmural Care, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
⁶ Centre of Psychosocial Medicine, Institute for Psychosocial Prevention, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ German Center for Mental Health, Partner Site Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study assesses the prevalence of sexual harassment among physicians and nurses in academic medicine in Germany.