Experiences of US medical students

Purpose: To determine if medical students of different races/ethnicities or genders have different perceptions of bias in the United States (US).
Methods: An IRB-approved, anonymous survey was sent to US medical students from November 2022 through February 2024. Students responded to statements regarding perceptions of bias toward them from attendings, patients, and classmates. Chi-square tests, or Fisher’s exact tests, when appropriate, were used to calculate if significant differences exist among genders or races/ethnicities in response to these statements.
Results: 370 students responded to this survey. Most respondents were women (n=259, 70%), and nearly half were White (n=164, 44.3%). 8.5% of women agreed that they felt excluded by attendings due to their gender, compared to 2.9% of men (p=0.018). 87.5% and 73.3% of Hispanic and Black students agreed that bias due to race negatively impacted research opportunities compared to 37.2% of White students (p<0.001). 87% and 85.7% of W..., This data was collected through Google Forms, and respondents were asked to log in with their email addresses to make sure that they could only submit their responses once. Data was processed in R studio., , # Experiences of US medical students - a national survey

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cz8w9gjbq](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cz8w9gjbq)

This dataset contains responses to an anonymous, IRB-approved survey sent to medical students across the country. The survey included demographic information and students' responses to various questions regarding their medical school experience. 

## Description of the data and file structure

The data is structured so that each row is an individual response. A researcher could analyze the data to see what demographic factors are related to various survey responses. 

There are certain questions on the survey that respondents could respond \"NA\" to if the question did not apply to them. For example, the last question on the survey asks,

| If you are an MS4, do you feel ready to be a doctor and take care of patients next year as an intern? |
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