Getting Checked by a Student Doctor

Several years ago I developed severe stomach pains, so my boyfriend took me to the hospital. It was a teaching hospital, and I ended up being seen by a very handsome male intern, who looked nervous the whole time he tried to help me. After asking various questions regarding diet, stress and other symptoms, he went and conferred with his attending physician. He came back to say he needed to do a pelvic exam to rule out a gynecological problem. I remember the nurse who was working with him trying to help him get the equipment set up and this poor student looking completely flustered about how to proceed. But he did a fine job overall...he had a gentle touch and provided good running commentary about what he was doing while he examined me. I never told my boyfriend that the doctor I saw was a student. Have others had similar experiences?

Glad to hear that the student did well. That must be an awkward position for an intern or student. How was his abdominal exam?

Not too uncommon, doctors have to start somewhere. Sure they enjoy playing/practicing on each other but a real patient is a big part of learning. Funny to seek out I suppose but sure you can find places that have a student staff.

I agree that this is a common practice and doctors have to start out somewhere. But they should have asked you if it was okay if the resident performed the exam on you.

You can check normally which places students are allowed to work. some clinics or hospitals allow students to train others dont.

Does anyone else fantasise about being a "model" for a student teaching session having lots of eager you doctors examining you?

My wife and I moved house after she was 8 months pregnant and had to go to a new hospital for an ante natal.

She was dressed in a gown and I was allowed to be with her. She saw a midwife and I was surprised to see a young man in the room too. He was introduced as a trainee doctor.

She was asked to sit on the bed and was asked various questions about the pregnancy by the female midwife. She was then asked about her breasts and whether they hurt and if they were producing any discharge - (they were). The student doctor was sitting to one side watching, and I was sitting to the other. My wife was asked to drop her gown to allow the midwife to check her breasts.

I became very excited (not in a pleasant way initially) as I realised that the student would get a sidelong look at my wife's swollen breasts and nipples. She dropped the gown as requested. The midwife supported each breast in turn with one hand and squeezed each nipple with the other until the discharge came - the student was getting a pretty good look from his seat.

The midwife said to him, 'Can you come and try this? Have you done it before?' The student answered no and lloked a bit panic stricken. He glanced over at me and I guessed he was worried about my reaction - which admittedly was startled.

She said 'Mr and Mrs S... don't mind, come on and try'. The student stood up and copied what the midwife had done and used both hands on each breast in turn until he got a discharge to come out.

I know my wife did not like any manipulation of her nipples at that stage because they were so sensitive, but she did not complain at the time.

I became very excited at the time, seeing the 19-20 year old lifting and pinching her nipples.

This feeling grew well after the event, and although my wife said she did not like it, it became the centre of our love making on many occasions afterwards.

Wow, did this ever hit the mark. My wife (girlfriend at the time) went to visit a gyn about 3 months before we were to get married. She wanted birth control pills and her sister had recommended this Dr. to her. She was very apprehensive but determined to go through with it and I drove her to the Dr's office in a large medical building near the hospital. She was greeted by the nurse and asked to fill out a form answering the usual questions and then took a seat in the waiting room. She said she was the only woman there that was not pregnant. A short while later she was called and went witht the nurse to the Dr's office. He was seated in a small but comfortable looking office and was chatting with another young man in a white lab coat who was introduced as Dr X. "he's working with me today" was all the Gyn said when introducing him. My wife was flustered but was so nervous she just sat down and answered many questions involving sexual activity, pain, med problems and family history. She was quite uncomfortable because of the presence of the other "Dr". After a time the Gyn called in his nurse and said "Take Mary to the exam room. She'll be having an exam including pap". My wife was escorted to the tiny exam room equipped with the usual including a table with stirrups pointed towards the door. The nurse said "Your not going to liketthis but you'll have to get undressed. Take off everything including your panties and get up on the table with your feet at the stirrup end of the table. You can pull this paper sheet up over you. The Dr. will be in shortly." My wife was now really nervous and she stripped quickly terrified that the Gyn would come in while she was undressing. She stripped completely and got up on the table and did her best to cover as much as she could with the thin paper sheet. After what seemed like a long time there was a tap at the door and in came the nurse, the Gyn and to her horror the student Dr. He positioned himself right at the end of the exam table and stood there blushing while the Gyn washed his hands. The Gyn then walked over to the table and pulled the sheet down to my wife's waist and pressed around her breastst for a minute or so. He then did the abdominal palpitation and said, "well everything looks fine here, now we'll do a routine pelvic and get you on your way. It's important for you to relax or I won't be able to do the exam>" He then picked up the speculum and the nurse told my wife to move her bottom to the end of the table and put her feet in the stirrups. She did so and was blushing profusely. The Dr said "Somebody is nervous, we get a lot of that around here." The student just continued to stare. The pelvic was quick she said but she never felt so humiliated or exposed in her life. After the exam she was escorted back to the office and she said the student was still blushing and couldn't make eye contact.

She was upset, I was upset but what could we do. She had not been asked permission and I thik that this was what we found most upsetting. We got over it and now enjoy playing "med student" but what a traumatic experience for her.

Sorry for the long post

Marwood

I would not like to be examined by a student doctor on anything. I don't want to be their guinea pig-- it would be humiliating.

Several years ago I developed severe stomach pains, so my boyfriend took me to the hospital. It was a teaching hospital, and I ended up being seen by a very handsome male intern, who looked nervous the whole time he tried to help me. After asking various questions regarding diet, stress and other symptoms, he went and conferred with his attending physician. He came back to say he needed to do a pelvic exam to rule out a gynecological problem. I remember the nurse who was working with him trying to help him get the equipment set up and this poor student looking completely flustered about how to proceed. But he did a fine job overall...he had a gentle touch and provided good running commentary about what he was doing while he examined me. I never told my boyfriend that the doctor I saw was a student. Have others had similar experiences?

It would probably be every man's dream to be examined by a young, good-looking female student doctor despite of the right diagnose.😃

I had been having major probs and got sent to the gyno clinic by doc. The female who did it was brill, but she asked if some other doctors could do it as it would help them. i wanted to say no but she talked me into it and 10 mins later i was being touched by 5 male and 2 f doctors. it was worst because they looked the same age as me

I am a 44 year old man that has been participating as a Standardized Patient (SP) for about 10 years now. We are trained to portray patients with a set of symptoms that should lead the medical student examining us to the diagnosis intended by the professor teaching the medical student. Standardized patients will see 5-6 student doctors in rapid succession during the quarterly Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) tests which are intended to confirm the students skills match what they are being taught in class. The student is allowed 15 minutes to take a medical history and perform the exam. Each SP will portray a single case over and over during the OSCE. The SP fills out a checklist after each encounter "grading" each student on their interviewing and physical examination skills.

Besides acting as a regular SP, I also work as a "Patient Model". Not to be confused with a model patient; one who is very compliant. A patient model does not portray a patient with symptoms but is a living "practice dummy" for the student doctors to perform the complete clinical physical examination. This is the second level of SP classification. These physical examinations may be a complete head to toe exam similar to what one would receive for a pre-employment or insurance physical exam. The exam may also be a head to toe exam conducted by the physician / professor in front of a classroom full of medical students for demonstration purposes. Another type of exam is the male genitourinary / rectal exam and female breast / pelvic exam. This last type of exam is usually conducted by a physician and 4 of his or her students in a small exam room with the SP. The physician conducts the exam first while the students observe. Then the student doctors each get a turn to perform the exam. These exams are usually taught at the beginning of the students 2nd year of medical school. I was a patient model for these exams about 2 weeks ago. Now you have to understand that these students are at the beginning of their second year of medical school. That means most of the students are 22-23 years old. A big part of my job is to make the student feel comfortable laying hands on patients and gain confidence in dealing with people much older then they are. Each SP is usually seen by both male and female student doctors for each case portrayal regardless of the case or the gender of the SP.

The third and last SP classification is “Teaching Associate” (TA). The teaching associate usually works with one male and one female student doctor at a time in 1 hour training session to teach the pelvic and breast exam on women and male genital and rectal / prostate exams on men. The TA will meet with the pair of students in an exam room and talk with them for a few minutes to put them at ease. The TA will ask which one wants to go first and it is usually the student of the same gender as the TA. The TA then instructs the student doctor on how to perform each part of the exam providing real time feedback and guidance for what they are doing right and wrong. The students then take turns performing the exam.

I just covered the overview of what the SP program is all about without sharing specifics of the encounters I have had over the years. If anyone wants more details about the program or specific types of encounters just ask. I cannot use names, locations, or be too descriptive about the students I have encountered in the past 10 years that might identify any of them or the medical schools I work for. I have to maintain the confidentiality of the students, most of them who are now doctors.

Once when I was a child, a cute female student doctor gave me a physical, but I was too young to enjoy it. 😳

After giving birth were visited by the health nurse and mine had a student. During the exam she checked my breasts and nipples. Pressed on my belly and looked at my vagina. She had the student feel my belly as well and she got a good look between my legs too