Medical students

I have never had a medical student examine me, but growing up, from time to time, there would be one who watched the doctor examine me. Quite a few times I had a nursing student take all the vitals st the pediatric exam.

I would have no problem with that actually would like it

I had some student doctors attend one of my exams once. They watched while I undressed and had various things explained.

As a doctor, its important for students to learn and part of that learning has to happen with real patients, so as long as I'm there and a patient agrees then student doctors can go ahead and learn.

In play exams I don't have students present…if my play patient needs an exam then I'm the ones that conducts it.

I would very friendly but direct say NO as a patient I am not a guinea pig

I feel I have a pretty profound moral obligation to allow this. It is a rather critical part of medical education and things would unravel pretty quickly without it. If most patients refused, we would soon have lots of inadequately trained young physicians providing less than ideal care to put it mildly. It goes without saying that each individual patient has the right to refuse and many would have good reason for doing so— PTSD, acute pain etc…

I had that opportunity while seeing my female APRN for my annual physical which included a prostate check. She asked if it was OK to have a female med student participate and I was fine with it.

Every time I've had students in, they seemed extremally bored, like they don't want to be there. Which I don't blame them, I'm sure they see the same thing over and over.

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I could be wrong , but this seems more like fantasy than reality haha!

My only experience with a medical student was for one of my surgeries a couple of years ago. She was present from beginning to end, just standing and observing. From pre-surgery check-in and prep until they took me up to my hospital room after recovery. She even witnessed two recovery nurses giving me a “skin exam” lying naked on the bed while they changed my gown. At the time it was a little embarrassing, but overall I was so preoccupied with everything else going on I didn't pay her much attention. Thinking back on it is embarrassing, and hot, knowing that she watched me endure all those experiences.

If a medical student were to witness or participate in one of my yearly physicals, I would be mortified at the time. I would be extremely embarrassed and nervous the entire time. However, it's also extremely hot to think about and fantasize about. It would almost be worth the embarrassment just to have such a hot experience and memories to think back on! … Almost …

The fact that it's a medical student doesn't really play into my embarrassment or turned on aspect. The same would also apply to a nurse, medical assistant, scribe, or any other chaperone. I am fine with a student actually participating in medical care or examination as long as there is somebody with experience that is overseeing the student.

Thank you Ben and everyone else who wrote about their experiences here.

During my last visit to my family doctor, a student carried out the examination and anamnesis entirely on her own. I didn't think that was a problem, as I gave her my consent for this beforehand. I had a cold and felt unable to go to work.

I still remember very well how we both approached the building from different directions and walked through the door together. At that time I still thought it was a young patient and not that she was on her way to work. It was early in the morning and I was the first patient. At the time, when I entered the building, I didn't think at all that she was going to carry out the examination soon. She was still very young, but seemed to know exactly what she was doing. Her questions were professional. It seemed as if she had taken the anamnesis many times. The only new thing for me was that she also listened to my heart during the examination.

I felt in good hands with the medical student. On the one hand, because she did her job professionally, on the other hand, because maybe I only had a mild cold and nothing more.

My wife has been examined by one or more students many times. we often go to teh medical college to get her anual.

I have never seen any of the students look bored to be examining my wife. Quite the contrary, they always seem quite interested in looking at her.

they rarely are very good. putting in the speculum always hurts her when a student does it. and when there is more than one, her breasts are sore and red from all the mauling by the students.

Needless to say, I absolutely love this

I was once asked by a physician whether or not their resident could help with a quick urology exam and prostate exam when i went in for a slight testicular pain

Happened to my partner. I accompanied her to a cardiology appointment and she was greeted by the doctor, who was very friendly, and nice with a delightful sense of humor.

My girlfriend immediately felt at ease. After a few pleasantries the doctor invited her to remain shirtless and sit on the table for an electrocardiogram. My girlfriend undressed and placed herself on the couch while waiting and the doctor began to place clamps on her wrists and ankles.

To access the room there was a first door, a small room about three feet across and a second door. The double door system provided maximum privacy.

When I heard the first door open and then the second, the doctor was called by a trainee who entered the room, with my gf already shirtless and half tied up. Upon entering he takes a good look at her as he asks the doctor if he can go through to the other exam room.

I was sitting on a chair and in that moment I received an important work call that I was waiting for, I take advantage of the moment of pause to answer, taken by the call I turn around and I don't notice anything.

The doctor walks out of the room, pulling the door behind him, which fails to close, but it approaches and half-opens it and the outer door was completely open, there was no screen. Someone's birthday was in the other room and all the interns and colleagues in the clinic were on their way to their appointment.

The room we were in overlooked a waiting room, with at least 10 people waiting, which in turn overlooked the room where the birthday boy or girl was.

I was talking on the phone and not paying attention to my partner's attempts to call for help in closing the door.

She was pinned down by the wires, shirtless and in view of at least 30-40 people, medical interns and other waiting patients.

It must have been about 2 minutes of total and unconditional unobstructed viewing of a young and attractive woman totally embarrassed and helpless.

She turned purple in the face, as soon as I realized what was happening I turned to her as I went to close the door, she seemed to want to sink into oblivion.

AWESOME!

At the time I was really sorry for what had happened, but I must say that after a few days, the more time passed, the more I thought back to that scene with a great sense of excitement.

Today I remember that moment as awesome, and wish I had enjoyed it more

I am always conflicted. im rock hard waiting for the doctor to expose my wife and start to have his way with her, but as soon as he exposes her and i see the embarrassment on her face i want to jump up and shout, “unhand my wife!”

its weird. but hot

Medical students need to learn by both watching and even participating in the examination process and my experience as a patient at a teaching hospital with medical students was entirely positive. I was something of a curiousity since the symptoms of my chronic disease were not at all typical. The class instructor (my doctor) used my extended hospital stay as a teaching opportunity. I even became the subject of one resident‘s case study presentation for some assignment which meant that he spent extra time with me asking questions and doing some noninvasive testing on his own with my permission. IMHO being a patient at a teaching hospital means allowing student involvement.

I’ve never had a med student sit in on a physical exam, but i did have one sit in when I was having a visit with my neurologist once. She was mostly just listening in on the chat between me and the doctor. I remember she did some speaking during it (I think it was because she is a lot closer to my age than the neurologist is) but the doctor still did all the same things he normally would.

There was usually a quick “exam” at these visits which consisted of taking BP, listening to heart rate, etc (no undressing) and the doctor wanted the student to take my BP. For some reason, she kept trying to do it and couldn’t get it and I felt kind of bad for her because she must have been embarrassed not being able to take BP. To be fair though, it also took the doctor a few tries so I don’t know if it was something with me or not.

I had a young medical intern in room with me at the urologist. He stood and observed as I had to drop my pants first doctor examined my penis and testicles then I had to lean over table as he did a DRE. I could feel him watching me . He was really good looking and part of me was hoping he would examine me as well.

It has happened to me a few times. I take no issue with an intern observing or conducting an examination of my body provided there is adequate supervision. A quality education is an equal balance of classroom study and practical application. You have to learn the job by doing the job.

For me it depends on how the doctor interact with them. I mean it's very important to get practice as a medical student and that is the best way to get it on the other hand it's really anoying when the doctor is talking more to the student then to the patient.

On the other hand it could also be very interesting what they are talking about. I never had the situation but I think it would be nice if the student also starts to examine me and the doctor would use me as an example.

Very happy for it to happen and it did when I was in hospital for a suspected heart attack. I was wired up overnight and in the morning the consultant came round with his minions and then asked if they could all interview me. I said yes and there was one particular new student who made a mess of his questions - could have cause offense so i spent time with him helping him to phrase the questions and also giving him permission to examine any part of my body he wanted. and he did and got me very excited when he did a fermural pulse test and brushed my testicles!! Yum yum

I have personally had this before in a physical as well as Medical procedures, i really find it fun and exciting to have more doctors in the room, plus the students will eventually be the ones providing exams and procedures in the future.

I have so many stories to tell. Where do I begin?

As a medical student we did a limited amount of practice on each other. I went to a fairly ‘old fashioned’ medical school. We did some physical exam practice on each other, including taking vital signs, drawing blood and giving shots in the arm. This was mixed-gender. I seem to remember we had a day that was probably heart and lung examination practice, and we did take our shirts off and practice on each other, but it was gender-segregated. I was in a room of guys, half of whom had their shirts off. I don't know what happened in the girl's side.

There was another medical school in town, and I had heard that they allowed medical students to pair-up in opposite-gender pairs (we didn't do that at our school). With an instructor present, the male would practice a breast exam on the female and the female would do a genital exam on the male. I went out on a date with a girl from that school and tried to find out if this was true. She confirmed that it was and that she had participated in it. But she gave me the impression that it was no big deal at all. I tried to find out if the guy she examined got an erection, but as I started hinting around that subject, I got the vibe of ‘you are being weird,’ so i dropped it.

During the second semester of my first year in medical school I got to shadow a family doctor one afternoon a week. He was an old guy, and pretty old-fashioned, but it was so exciting to wear a tie and put on a short white coat and feel official. (At that time, and still in a lot of places today, doctors get long white coats, and medical students get short white coats.)

Although I was assigned to shadow the clinic owner, he had an employee physician, who was an energetic and cheerful female, probably in her 40's. She was attractive, but prematurely grey. Sometimes she would ask me if I wanted to see one of her patients. One day I saw a cute young girl, about 21, come in for an appointment. She was pretty, but had a lot of acne. As I saw her led into the exam room, I could tell she was very nervous. The female doctor came over to me and told me that the girl was there for a pre-marital exam, and asked me if I wanted to watch. It took me a couple of seconds tor realize that meant the girl would be getting a breast and pelvic exam. I had never seen one for real before and I was pretty excited. I said yes, I'd like to watch. She said she would ask the girl for permission. She went in the room and came back a few moments later to tell me that she was sorry, but the girl did not consent to my observing. 😢

It has happened to me and it didnt worry me at all,they probably learn more by being on the wards looking at the patients than they do in a classroom,when the doctors used to come and see me,sometimes they had students with them and when the doctor asked me questions, i would ask the students have they got any question they want to ask me.

No problem for me if there is a student with my doctor or nurse.

It is normal that students see patients not only in the books but real patients.

I am not sure that I am the typical patient but I am a case of possible patient.

@castro great description. sorry you didnt get to participate in some more fun exams. you write well. do you have other stories that you can share with us?

@XposeHer, yes, lots.

I saw my first genital exam on a teen male at that same clinic, when I was shadowing the clinic owner (male). It was a boy about seventeen years of age. It was a pretty straightforward, normal teen male physical exam. He was undressed down to his underwear for the exam.

The only thing that was at all remarkable is that for most of the exam, my preceptor didn't specifically tell me anything about what he was doing. I just watched as he did the exam. When he did the genital exam, however, he did check the cremasteric reflex, and he commented to me that he was performing the exam of that reflex and that it was normal. I only thought that was odd because it increased the duration of time that the boy had his underwear pulled down.

I do remember that during the exam the boy's penis did seem to get longer. It was longer than his scrotum. But I did not detect any hint of it beginning to point out away from his body. I wondered if he had the beginnings of an erection or if he just had a naturally large penis.

Even though he was a male, it was a big milestone for me in that I had seen my first genital exam on a real patient. I had been admitted to the inner sanctum of the doctor's office where a person was allowed to observe an intimate exam.

Very cool. plz tell us about your first exam of a female patient