Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, VIC, Australia.
Med Teach. 2012;34(7):e518-28. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.668628. Epub 2012 Apr 5.
Patients generally have positive attitudes regarding being examined by a supervised medical student as part of their medical care. However, it is difficult to obtain model patients for students to examine purely for teaching purposes (i.e. in the absence of medical treatment).
This study explored the effects of participants' demographics, characteristics of medical students, and the type of examination/procedure on whether individuals would consent to be examined by a medical student purely for teaching purposes.
Four-hundred-and-two Western Australians completed an online survey in 2009.
Individuals were generally unconcerned regarding a medical student's gender and ethnicity. However, they would either not permit or wanted more advanced medical students to examine more intimate body regions and conduct more invasive procedures. Less observing medical students were permitted to be present for intimate examinations. Individuals who were male, aged≥25 years, Caucasian, and of no religious affiliation were more likely to permit formative year medical students to examine and conduct procedures on them. Additionally, these individuals were more likely to have had prior experience with a medical student and/or been hospitalised previously.
This information may be useful in terms of recruiting patient models for teaching purposes.
患者通常对在医疗护理过程中接受监督的医学生检查持积极态度。然而，为了纯粹的教学目的（即在没有治疗的情况下）获得可供学生检查的模范患者却很困难。
本研究探讨了参与者的人口统计学特征、医学生的特征以及检查/程序的类型对个人是否同意仅为教学目的接受医学生检查的影响。
2009 年，422 名澳大利亚西部人完成了一项在线调查。
个人通常对医学生的性别和种族并不关心。然而，他们要么不允许，要么希望更高级别的医学生检查更私密的身体部位并进行更具侵入性的程序。较少观察的医学生被允许在场进行私密检查。男性、年龄≥25 岁、白种人、无宗教信仰的个体更有可能允许实习医学生对他们进行检查和操作。此外，这些人更有可能之前有过与医学生接触的经历，或者之前有过住院治疗的经历。
这些信息对于招募教学用患者模型可能是有用的。
