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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious ...

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.

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

Female teens seeking birth control are less likely to undergo pelvic exams. Doctors say that young women’s dread of the invasive procedure prevents them from seeking not only contraceptive counseling, ...

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 ...