BMJ 2002;325:683-684 ( 28 September )

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Women's attitudes to the sex of medical students in a gynaecology clinic: cross sectional survey

Norma O'Flynn, NHS R&D national primary care training fellow, Janice Rymer, senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology. 

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Guy's, King's, and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London SE11 6SP

Correspondence to: Norma O'Flynn norma.o'flynn@kcl.ac.uk

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In Tomorrow's Doctors the General Medical Council recommended that medical schools construct a list of procedures in which students should show competence by the time they qualify.1 There is general acceptance that such core skills include passing a speculum, taking a smear, and performing a competent pelvic examination. Anecdotal evidence from medical students, particularly male students, is that experience in this area is difficult to obtain. This is not a problem confined to the United Kingdom. In response to a similar perception among their male students, staff at the University of California studied patients' views on the involvement of medical students in the women's visits in an outpatient gynaecological and obstetric setting.2 They found that 81% of patients accepted the involvement of students during a gynaecological visit, with no preference for a particular sex. However, the study did not directly address the issue of intimate examinations. We surveyed women attending . . . [Full text of this article]
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