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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a 4th year med student (not OP). I have done pelvic exams on unconscious patients before gynecologic procedures. I thought they were consented for this as part of the procedure but maybe they were not. Even when I thought they were consented I wasn't super comfortable doing it to be completely honest. I did lots of pelvic exams on awake patients and felt fine about those but I didn't like doing it when they were under anesthesia. Also as someone said above, it is true that they pay fake patients (called standardized patients) for us to learn how to do our first pelvic exam. We do the same for the prostate exam. [/quote]

OP here. Wondering if you can refuse? This literally makes me want to puke- it’s like being raped. What if there is damage to the women? This isn’t crazy as one med student really hurt a standardized patient by clamping on her cervix. I will literally drop out of med school if they make me do this. [/quote]

I’m sure you could refuse. When I did pelvic exams on our anethesized patients the attending/resident was also doing the same thing before the procedure to know what the anatomy they were working with was like before the camera was in. They would usually do it themselves and then tell me to do it after them. I assume they were consented for a pelvic exam as part of the procedure but I don’t know if they knew multiple people would be doing it. 
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