The transgression of sexual and reproductive rights during the professional training of postgraduate female medical residents as a form of violence against women

Abstract

Introduction. Our purpose is to determine if the hospital care institutions and / or the university institutions impose repressive norms on the medical graduate students due to their pregnancy condition. Methods: We performed a prospective, cross-sectional observational study; 400 postgraduate residents of the Division of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zulia answered a survey on reproductive rights in medical residents. Results: 70% of the simple knows the existence of a protection law regarding any type of violence against women. 90% of respondents do not know or do not remember the existence of a Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights. 100% of the respondents do not know the current legal regulations on maternal rights in Venezuela. 90% were informed upon admission to the medical residency about the existence of some type of regulation that forced them to abandon postgraduate activities because they were pregnant.. 100% of residents who became pregnant during their academic period (n = 100) were forced to abandon their teaching academic care activities. 100% were unaware of legal legal mechanisms to protect their right to reproduction and maternity. Conclusion: The lack of knowledge of current legal regulations on sexual and reproductive rights of postgraduate medical residents by the Division of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zulia, in Maracaibo, Venezuela as well as the academic committees of each graduate residence is evident. Keywords: Violence, transgression, medical residencies, medical resident, sexual rights, reproductive rights, human rights, postgraduate.