Have any med students listen to you with a stethoscope?

Tell about how it was? Were you auscultate by more than one person that day? How did you feel? Was it a male or female student?

My answer is no. unfortunately I have not been lucky enough to experience this myself.

Yes. When I was a “standardized patient” at our local medical school I was examined and “steted” by multiple doctors/professors and students. Students both men and women, of all races and nationalities. I have a heart click, non-concerning, but was what was really scary was that about 50%of the doctors leading the various session could NOT actually hear my “click” and they were supervising the sessions. What I did learn from being a “standardized patient” is there are a lot of ill-trained or incompetent doctors in practice.

Yes, a few female med students.

Weve had doctors at teaching hospitals in Colorado and Texas. A couple of times for routine exams they’ve asked if a student could observe and a couple of times they both ausculated us. While hospitalized, a number of times a doc showed up with students, but no exams, just questions.

@Tabitha32 med student in real office practice, or do you let them train/practice on you, because they are your friends?

@michjay Or it tells you just how basic listening to a heart with a stethoscope is. Like percussing, it is a very basic test.

It also shows that doctors practice the art of medicine and not the science of medicine.

At my cardiologist

Not had a student Auscultate me, but have had medical student present on a few occasions during GP or hospital visit.

Had a student, check out my ears when I had an ear infection.

Also had vitals taken by student as I was being induced and I vaguely remember one of the inductions ( I had 5 in total!!! Before finally being given a C-section) being done by a student.

Had it done by a fellow student during pre-med course at university. Did the same to her too. Didn't do anything for me other than the fact that I got a glimpse of her rather nice boobs swelling from her bra.

When I was in the hospital for my bypass surgery, there was a number of students who came in to check various things including listening to my chest.

Yes, I was in the hospital after abdominal surgery. Throughout the days, many doctors and nurses stethed my heart, lungs, and abdomen, especially during their shift change. On my last day there, during the nurses morning evaluation of me, in walks a lady and 7 or 8 younger ladies in matching scrubs. The lady introduces herself as an instructor for a local university and these were her nursing students. They all stood around watching my nurse and then followed her out the door to the next patient. A short while later, the instructor and one of the students return and she somewhat asks/ informs me that the student will practice examining me. I of course give my consent because it's a totally hot scenario, and I'm so beyond bored and looking for some company.

The instructor leaves us and shuts the door behind her. After some chit chat, the student lowers my sheet and raises my gown to expose my abdomen, and examines and inspects my incisions carefully and thoroughly. She then rearranged my coverings before performing a HEENT exam while continually consulting a checklist of notes she had with her. Next she lowers my gown to my waist and begins auscultating me thoroughly. Heart, lungs, and abdomen probably spent 5-10 minutes listening very intently. After finishing and consulting her checklist again, she began putting on exam gloves and actually said, “And now the fun part.”

I got so excited, and very curious about what exactly she meant by all that. At that exact moment, in walks my surgeon and tells me I'm being discharged. He gives her a quick glance and then begins asking me questions and explaining to me the process of the next couple of weeks. My student stands there for a few seconds and then begins taking off her gloves and gathering her things. You could visibly see the dejection on her face and body language. It was actually sad to see.

I don't believe student nurses do any intimate exams of hospital patients, but it sure is fun to dream and fantasize about what could have been after she gloved up! To this day, I'm still curious about what exactly she was about to do that was “fun”.

I've not had Med Students auscultate me during a real exam. However as a student, i was friends with Medical Student and became his “practice patient” for practicing all his exam techniques.

When i was a member of a local First Aid group, I continued my training to work on our ambulances. We had to learn taking BP (manual sphygmomanometer not using modern automatic machines), and also chest auscultation. We practiced on each other.

I had a couple of students listen to my belly with their stethoscopes for bowel sounds at my last gastro appointment. They palpated too. As a belly exam is my favourite part of any examination this was a very pleasing experience for me.

I've had quite a few students listen to both my chest and stomach with their stethoscopes over the years.

My doctor asks if I'm happy to have a student in with her, which I am, so whatever my doctor does, the student does. I get two thorough stethings as well as getting to hear them talk about my heart, lungs, abdomen.

I had a couple of students listen to my belly with their stethoscopes for bowel sounds at my last gastro appointment. They palpated too. As a belly exam is my favourite part of any examination this was a very pleasing experience for me.

This sounds so lovely!!

Yes at my cardiologist appointment

No, although this is a very healthy fantasy of mine...one summer I shared a flat for 3 months with a guy who was a med student and had a couple of stethoscopes that were always on display in his room, and I always wanted him to ask if he could practice one me, but he never did, and I never managed to get up the balls to try using his gear on myself when he was out of the room, but when I looked at them the idea was a major turn-on to me, although in retrospect I've no regrets about it not going further since we were good friends because we liked similar music and I'm glad our boundaries never crossed into the world of one man's fetish meeting another's area of study; I think about those times fondly now because there was temptation on my part but I never caved into it out of respect for the friendship we had. It's sad I lost touch with him as this all happened back in 2004 and he will now be a qualified doctor with lots of experience!

Unfortunately it's never happened to me, but it is a fantasy of mine to be examined by a student while the real doctor provides instructions.

Quite recently, I'd been having stomach pains or a while and I went to the doctors. I've described or in full on another post on here, but he had a junior doctor in with him and asked if I minded her observing - obviously I didn't! And so she watched as they examined my exposed abdomen, with the red waistband and the top of my Spiderman boxers poking above my jeans.

I've said a few times on here about it turning me on when they use childish terms like referring to listening to my tummy or talking about my tummy button. This time, they used very medical terms and when it came to the auscultation part, it was "We'll start by listening directly above the umbilicus, listening for up to two minutes for normal bowel sounds." Then "We'll then listen 3-4cm laterally and superior to the umbilicus on both sides for any bruits."

I soooo hoped he would ask her to have a go herself at examining, but sadly not. It was at least nice to have someone else in the room watching, with me lying there barechested as a subject.

Going by the strict expectation of the question, I would say No i haven't been examined, or listened to, by a medical student in a Real Situation.

However, when I was at university I was living with medical students (although I wasn't studying medicine; having had to change courses at last minute) & became very friendly with one of them, who helped me with the anatomy parts of my course. After helping me, by showing me the structures on my body, he asked whether I would be willing to be a "patient" for him to practice & hone his examination skills. I readily agreed and ended up having him practice all his examination techniques; from auscultation and percussion / palpation to the full physical examination, including rectal & prostate exams.

My doctor is a teaching doctor for the local hospital and everytime I go a medical student examines me first and then my regular doctor does the final consult. I have had a mix of male and female doctors over the last few years, a lot of asian and middle eastern it seems, only a few white American students. The students give me a much more extensive exam than my regular doctor no matter what I am seeing the doctor for.

I’ve had this happen several times!

Once at a cardiologist appointment, there was a resident doing his rotation there and he auscultated me alongside the doctor.

Funnily enough - later down the line I ended up seeing that resident doctor as a full fledged attending at a different practice. He was watching over my current primary care when he was doing his residency. There were multiple occasions at that practice when I’d have different resident doctors examine me.

Now I’ve followed my current doctor past his residency and into his own practice. It’s exciting getting to be examined and auscultated by multiple doctors - but it was also kind of cool getting to see this progression of the doctors growing over time! 😂

I think it has happened a few times at the family doc, when they had some student in training.

Last week I had a great and totally unexpected experience. In Spain, 6 year medicine students and residents rotate in the primary care centers. I know it but I never see them in my doctor office. Last week I went to the doctor just to renew my prescriptions. I entered and sow my doctor and a young woman sitted in a white coat and a stethoscope on her neck. Doctor explained that she was a last year medical student doing practice. I explained my need and she told me, ok, do you mind if she takes your bp and auscultates you meanwhile I renew your prescription. Of course not, I told. So the young woman indicated me to go to the exam table and she took my bp. Quite high by the way… Then she ask me to take off my shirt and she was auscultating me very carefully… Ultrahot experience!!

I've had it quite a bit that a medical student would be shadowing the doctor. The doctor would examine me then the student would follow their lead or vice versa. The student would go first and report their findings to the doctors who would check for themselves

My wife has gone to the medical college several times for her annual exams. a few times at the state medical college and a few times at the Naturopathic College. At the NP college she would see two or three students and one overseeing doctor. it was always super hot. We went the first time when she was 18 so the students were about her age usually. Occasionally there would be one old guy. Second career kind of thing i guess.

The students always seemed very embarrassed and awkward. they were never good at getting a speculum in and it always hurt her when they tried.

She has very sensitive breasts so the breast exam was kinda brutal for her also. Especially when three men would brutally feel her up looking for lumps.

They were always careful to keep their clipboard in front of themselves, but on one occasion when they all filed back into the room after giving her time to put on a gown, I'm sure i saw a tent on one student.

They also were not at all attentive to the door. Whenever one had to go out of the room to get something he would leave the door open or ajar. There were several visits where other people walking down the hall looked in and got various views of my young wife.

Once, the students were just present while a female doctor was listening to me.

It's always been my dream to date one, or a nursing student! I get a bit excited whenever I see one on a dating app

Years ago I went in for a physical and the female doctor had a student from the medical school with her in the exam room. It was a new program they were trying. The student listened to my heart and lungs along with a blood pressure check. The doctor did the prostate exam on me while explaining the procedure to the student. The student was a nice looking young woman and she thanked me for allowing her to examine me. You can examine me anytime you want i thought.

No, but my brother did. The doctor asked if we minded if a med student joined us for an exam one year, I immediately said he could exam my brother, my mom was mortified, but the doctor just laughed and said he was hoping for him to listen to my brother because he had a heart murmur. He did the rest of the exam on him except for the genital.

Yes, I have.