Where Do They Find These Jobs?

Over the years I've watched numerous medical training videos from South America, the UK, Eastern Europe, and Asia that use live human models to demonstrate all different types of exams and procedures, including genital and rectal exams. I've often wondered- how do they get these gigs?

Some of the guys and gals featured look pretty young, so how did they find work of this nature? Are they already established professional models working for an agency of some sort? Ordinary patients who consent to having their procedures recorded? Professional standardized patients? Struggling college students desperate for cash?

I'm not sure I'd be brave enough or bold enough to do something like that myself, but I am quite intrigued. Just how exactly DOES an ordinary guy land the sort of gig where you stand or lay butt naked for several minutes in front of a camera, while an attractive lady doc handles your bits and explains in detail what's being done and why, to be shown on national TV and / or university lecture halls all over the country, AND you get paid for it???

The lack of boners or precum from the guys is also rather interesting, unless those were edited out.

The two common sources are

1) students who get money for their work, or

2) professional standardized patients who work at the facility.

Standardized patients are generally found by word of mouth due to the sensitive nature of the work. Some big city programs advertise but tend to get many - inappropriate - candidates.

When I was in the Army taking my medical training, we practiced on the guy sitting next to us and then he had his chance to get even. First off the instructor asked for a volunteer ---yea, that never worked, so he just pointed to one of us and said " you are my volunteer today" ---Kind of embarrassing to us young soldiers to be sometimes naked while everyone else is in uniform. Being naked in the showers was no problem because we all were that way.-----I was really glad that I was never a "volunteer" in front of everybody because I was still in puberty back then and not the most developed yet.

I'd love this job. To get paid to be examined by young, would-be doctors? Where do I sign?!

Jds has it. The standardized patient encounters are videotaped, not for medfet, but for staff and student use/review. I'm in the middle of nowhere, and the largest hospital system has a program, usually open to actors because the scenarios need to be acted out, actors acting as if they had a disease so the students are challenged to determine what it is.

In NYC, with major research facilities, there were regular classified ads, but in a drug study, the pre-employment physical, in my experience, was minimal: just enough to qualify the person.