That controversial teaching practice is on the way out. Already 25 states have enacted laws requiring explicit consent for pelvic exams. Most recently the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

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 ...

A growing national controversy over how much patients should be informed of procedures performed on them while they are under anesthesia has put teaching hospitals - including those affiliated with ...

where he was asked to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized women, without specific consent, “solely for the purpose of my education.” His attending physicians told him it was “considered ...