Medical students

How do you feel about an inexperienced young medical student looking on while you are being examined? Or even doing the examination under the supervision of an experienced doctor?

It sounds like a lot of fun to me. I'm always ready for an audience.

Never again. I have found the doctor usually spends more time talking to the student and tends to pay less attention to the patient.

Fantasy: Most definitely yes please!

Real life: depends a bit. Medical students need practice, I'd rather them learn now under supervision than later when they're off and responsible on their own, so if it's a normal exam, no complaints, then I'd consider it. If I had some specific complaint or concern I might be a bit more hesitant.

I find that it is often more easy to engage with the students. They are more eager to please and get to know the patient. Doctors in hospital settings are often short of time and more brusque.

Oh Yes,

About six years ago I had to go to Hospital for an exam of my Foreskin which turned out to be balanitis and Phimosis due to Diabetic complications.

I said that I was perfectly happy for any Medical Student to observe my consultation before being asked.

The result was that a group of six Male & Female (4 to 2) medical Students asked me all manner of questions and several examined my foreskin as the Doctor explained that I would require Circumcision.

The experience was very embarrassing and definately uncomfortable but I LOVED IT!.

The Males seemed very embarrassed at asking me questions but the women were very matter of fact and not in the least bit phased.

Have done this a few times since with parathyroid, Ingrowing Toenail, Shoulder Rotator and a urinary problem.

My philosophy is that everybody has to learn their trade and I cant see any problem so long as the student is not physically wielding the Scalpel on me just yet!.

doctorprg

Thank you doctorprg and anyone else who has the mind set to allow students to be in on your examinations.

You are correct when you say that we all have to learn someplace, and learning from actual patients is so much more helpful than reading out of a book.

Without the help of willing patients, our educations would be greatly lacking! So thank you again, and a karmic bump for you my willing participant. Please keep up the open mind.

Very sincerely,

Mashie

I'd love to give the student the practive of doing the exam on me. I have seen videos of such exams on youtube. Even though the student may lack practical experience you never know, the student may spot something that the experienced doctor may overlook !

I wonder where I could go to get such an exam by a Med student ?

There is a big nursing school in our town, so the students (mostly girls) have practice lessons in our local hospital. I has been hospitalized four times in the local hospital and I always allowed the students to be present during my examination. In future, they will work there as personae fully responsible for caring for their patients, so they have to learn, how to do.

I have problems with my eyes, too. And I have visited the eye clinic in Prague for many years. The clinic is a part of the university, so I allowed the students, the future doctors, to examine me, too. The reason is the same as above.

I have had medical students observe several times while I was in the stirr-ups but the time that really sticks out in my mind was not at a gyn exam. I happened to cut the back of my knee and needed stitches and my doctor had a medical student with her that day. Numbing medicine does not work on me at all, meaning I had to get stitches without it. I remember my doctor asking me if the med student could hold my very young son, 2-3 months old and I said sure. I found out after I handed him off that the med student and NEVER held a baby before and had no clue how to hold him or what to do with him. The stitches hurt and I wanted to cry but the fear I felt came from watching the med student with my son in his arms and the look on his face that said please don't let me drop him or hurt him. Although the I was in pain from the needle, my mind was not on that pain but on my son. My doctor knew me pretty well by then and she knew that by doing what she did that i would not put up a fuss and would want it over quickly to get my son back. So I got stitches and that med student got to hold his first baby, a win win for both of us, I guess.

I've had students observe and take part in the exam several times. Once a male doctor and a very cute female student took turns listening to my heart and lungs, describing what they heard to each other. I hoped it would lead to a similar rectal exam, but no such luck.

I have felt I would love to be a patient for a bunch of medical students. I'm not sure how you go about getting into the medical schools for this.

My GP practice makes great play about being part of a university teaching programme and so i can expect students to be present, and my right to not have them there and so on.

But after many years attending the practice i have never yet had a student sit in. Seems to be rarer than you might think.

I think it's making the arousing even greater...especially when I have an erection during the hernia check and you could see she's blushing (in my case it was a girl)....it was hard for me to refrain myself not to throw a diabolic smile at her >😃

I've allowed students in the room both at my GP's and during hospital appointments

I am happy help people learn even if is causes me some discomfort. I did have a number of students, male and female, see me naked from the waist down after my last surgery. I can tell you that all of them were great. I thought I got excellent care from these kids.

I had heart surgery as a child and the hospital I had the surgery performed at was a teaching hospital so I was always very used to students coming in with the doctor to examine me.

Also, my girlfriend is a med student (ironically at the same school/hospital where I had my heart surgery) and I am grateful to the patients that allowed her to examine them because without those experiences, she wouldn't have the skills or experience she has.

See my post about my scrotum exam and ultrasoud,

I always let the med student examine me. I am not so sure when it come to actual procedures.

As a kid, I remember having a physical exam in which I didn't have much of a choice of having a medical student observe and practice during my physical exam wearing just briefs. Although when it came time for the genital exam, the student was excused.

My dad also was going to excuse himself, but the doctor told him that wouldn't be necessary. He stayed and continued to read a magazine while the doctor completed that part of the exam.

About two years ago during my annual well woman exam, the doctor walked in with a NP student and asked if I mind having the student do the exam with the Dr. present. I allowed the student to do the exam, however the doctor had to assist in positioning the speculum.

My male doctor has never asked me if student could be present for my (male) exam. And so, I find it interesting how many male students have been requested to see my (girl) friend's gyno exams. It's seems a bit disproportionate...but I can't blame them for wanting more practice on a naked female!

It is my number one hope. I have thought about this many many times.

I once helped out some med students when sent to their home for a phone problem. The company I worked for had a half hour minimum to any service call. Needless to say these med students were not too happy when I fixed the problem in less than 5 minutes. They said I needed to give them the full half hour. I told them the phone line was fixed so what did they have in mind.

They said that since they were both females and I was male I could help them study for next week's lessons. I didn't understand the full scope of what they were saying until they mentioned I have equipment that they don't. I would have guessed these med students were in the early 20s. They said time is a wasting and had me strip below the belt.

They were very professional and very student like. They had the books and charts and had studied whatever they could from those books but having a real penis to compare it to was even better for them. They said they generally practice on each other in the classroom. But with only 11 female students in the class they were missing the male parts.

They thanked me for helping them and I felt better knowing I probably helped them get an "A" in that class.

I had a really cute nurse practitioner student do my physical once. My doctor explained that she was done with school and was doing part of her internship working in his office and asked if I minded. Of course I did not mind at all. She was petite, Asian, in her twenties and very nice. He's had a few other NP trainees working at his office since but none of them like her!

They have to learn somewhere, somehow. It has only happened to me a couple of times, usually with the doctors permission. I always tell them sure but I don't want to be the homework project or a case study, meaning I hope the exam goes well. The most recent training situation was last week. I had a routine EKG as part of a physical and the nurse was teaching the student how to hook it up. Actually it was the student's turn to do it herself. She was messing up with lots of reminders from the nurse. It actually caused me a bit of stress. The one humorous part was when the student rolled my pant leg up to apply the lead to me legs. The trainer told the trainee to never touch a patient or move/remove their clothing without explaining what happening and why.

I was watched by a male medical student at a complete physical once. I was OK with that. They have to learn somehow.

This has happened to me twice and both times the student was female. I have always said yes when asked, figuring that they have to learn somewhere and the Doctor is there to make sure they are doing the exam correctly. In both instances a complete physical exam was performed including genital and rectal exam, with the doctor going first and then having them do the exam with him coaching. All in all, both times were positive experineces, and I would allow a med student to be present again.

I once went into the clinic to be looked at for severe cough, cold and flu like symptoms. I was in real bad shape and sat there as the doctor listened to my lungs and heart. My neck was also inflamed and solid. He says to me "well thats interesting" and then opens the door and yells down the hall for someone. He said to come to this exam room when you have a minute. Someone else asks the doc if he needs help in the room. The doc says no he didn't need help he just wanted someone to hear this guys lungs. The doc them offered that person entrance to the room and listen to my lungs. Then someone else walked by and the doc offered them a listen. I think it happened about 5 or 6 times. I even think the janitor was offered to listen. The original guy that was called was studying to be a doctor and the doc wanted him to know what sound my lungs were making. It turns out I had strep, bronchitis, and pneumonia at the same time.

This is one of my fantasies to have a couple or how ever many medical students to learn using my body for their practice .

im not being big headed bi=ut i do enjoy the feeling of humiliation in that situation .

anybody else share this feeling . ?or am i just strange .

Hi Gynoslave!

You are not alone! The same feelings... I like this...