Surveyed Black medical students’ experiences with discrimination in Canadian medical school
| Variable | Response | No. (%) of students |
|---|---|---|
| Dealing with experiences of discrimination | ||
| Student experienced discrimination in medical school, n = 51 | Yes | 30 (59) |
| No | 19 (37) | |
| Did not answer | 2 (4) | |
| Student shared experience with other student peers, n = 26* | Yes | 21 (81) |
| Institutional support | ||
| Student sought institutional support, n = 26* | Yes | 8 (31) |
| Student received institutional support, n = 22* | Yes | 6 (27) |
| Quality of institutional support, n = 8† | Poor | 2 (25) |
| Fair | 3 (38) | |
| Good | 3 (38) | |
| Very good | 0 | |
| Excellent | 0 | |
| Sources of discriminatory experiences for respondents, n = 26* | ||
| Patient | 13 | |
| Student peer or resident | 11 | |
| Professor or lecturer | 6 | |
| Hospital staff (staff physicians) | 6 | |
| Preceptor | 5 | |
| Hospital staff (nurses) | 5 | |
| Hospital staff (allied health) | 3 | |
Note: The sample size varied in function of nonrespondents or nonapplicable participants with certain questions (i.e., only students who answered “yes” to having experienced discrimination could answer the [*] marked prompts and only students who received institutional support could answer the [†] prompts). This question was also multiple choice, meaning the total n is greater than the number of respondents.