Pelvic exams play a pivotal role in medical education, often representing the first time medical students touch real humans in a professional manner. In her new book “Feeling Medicine,” published by ...

Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But ...

Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...

Last year, Hannah Shacter learned to perform a procedure known to invoke anxiety among medical students: the infamous pelvic exam. But the third-year medical student may have been among the last batch ...

Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But ...

Pennsylvania doctors are now required to obtain informed consent for medical students to perform pelvic, rectal, or prostate exams on patients under anesthesia. Pennsylvania joins 20 other states that ...

A pelvic exam is a way for doctors to look for signs of illness in organs in a woman's body before, during, and after menopause. The word "pelvic" refers to the pelvis. The exam is used to look at a ...

Healthcare practitioners, including medical students, are now prohibited from performing pelvic examinations on female patients without first obtaining written consent, but many specific, logistical ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new Pennsylvania law will require doctors to get a patient’s verbal and written consent before medical students can perform pelvic or rectal exams on someone who receives ...

More than half of bimanual pelvic exams (BPE) given to young women aged 15 to 20 years are likely unnecessary, according to estimates from a study published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The gynecology clinic is often a discouraging learning environment for medical students. Although those who complete a third-year clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology may take histories from plenty ...

To the editor: I’d like to offer an unconventional approach to learning what to expect during a pelvic exam: Attend one of your mother’s. The summer before I left for college, my mother brought me to ...