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More than a year after McGill University’s prestigious medical program was put on probation for the first time in its history, more than one in two medical students says they’re still mistreated by faculty, according to an internal report obtained by the Montreal Gazette.

What’s more, fear of reprisals to complain about mistreatment actually increased this year — to 35.5 per cent from nearly 28 per cent in 2015, a survey commissioned by McGill’s medical faculty has found. The internal report does not describe any specific examples of mistreatment, but research has found it to be a persistent problem in medical schools, with one U.S. study highlighting similarities with child abuse.

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“There are a number of issues that always come up in the accreditation process, and mistreatment is a major one not only here, but across Canada and North America,” Dr. Samuel Benaroya, McGill’s vice-dean of health affairs, said in an interview Wednesday.