Medical Education: Patients' Perspectives on Clinical Training and Informed Consent.

ABSTRACT: There are complex ethical dilemmas inherent to medicine teaching, particularly in clinical practice involving actual patients. Questions must be raised on fulfilling medical students' training needs while still respecting patients' fundamental rights to autonomy and privacy. We aimed to assess patients' perspectives regarding medical students' involvement in their medical care. An observational, cross-sectional study was developed, and a questionnaire was applied randomly to patients waiting for a consultation/admitted to three distinct departments: General Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, and Infectious Diseases. Of the 77% interviewed patients who reported previous experiences with medical students, only 59% stated that they were asked for consent for their participation, and 28% stated

SUBMITTER: Gil-Santos I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature