A survey of human sexuality teaching in the medical course.

In recent years, the curriculae of some Australian medical schools have been extensively revised. However, being revisions, as distinct from reconstructions, new subjects were only added if they were thought of at the time; for example, electives. Still more recently, there have been cries for undergraduate medical education to involve itself more with the common problems typically facing the family physician. This has paralleled the wave of verbal opinion by medical students, doctors, and allied health professionals, that the field of "Human sexuality" should be included in the medical curriculum as an integrated but distinct entity. The survey presented in this article was carried out to document this opinion on paper, and to obtain information which may be relevant in proposals for establishing such a formal teaching programme.