Can gynaecology teaching associates provide high quality effective training for medical students in the United Kingdom? Comparative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To train laywomen to become professional patients in order to teach medical students speculum and bimanual examination, to assess their effectiveness in this role, and to incorporate this method of teaching into the undergraduate curriculum of a medical school in the United Kingdom.

Design

Comparative study.

Setting

Guy's, King's, and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London.

Participants

44 medical students trained by gynaecology teaching associates; 48 control students.

Main outcome measure

Skills in pelvic examination.

Results

Six laywomen were recruited and all successfully graduated to become gynaecology teaching associates. At assessment 1, in the third week of the reproductive and sexual health block, the mean score achieved by stu

SUBMITTER: Pickard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC292994 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature