Last year, Hannah Shacter learned to perform a procedure known to invoke anxiety among medical students: the infamous pelvic exam. But the third-year medical student may have been among the last batch ...

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 ...

Some medical ... students develop moral erosion. They may devalue the importance of informed consent, and this shift in belief extends across all patient care, not just pelvic and prostate exams ...

Medical historian Wendy Kline has spent years studying the history of women’s health. Here, she explains why the shocking history of the pelvic exam is inherently political – and what all ...