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Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues

Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues
Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues
Medical students at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland can volunteer to participate in an undergraduate options project that gives them the opportunity to provide sex education for secondary school (high school) pupils. Using a questionnaire presenting a set of fictional case histories, we assessed medical students' theoretical confidence at dealing with sexual health consultations. Students who had participated in delivering peer-led sex education felt significantly more confident at discussing sexual health issues with patients of all age groups (p = 0.001) than students who had not participated in the project. All students felt more comfortable seeing patients of the same gender as themselves but more than half felt that their training left them generally ill-equipped to handle sexual health consultations
sex education, medical student education
0010-7824
135-139
Faulder, Georgina S.
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Riley, Simon C.
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Stone, Nicole
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Glaiser, Anna
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Faulder, Georgina S.
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Riley, Simon C.
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Stone, Nicole
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Glaiser, Anna
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Faulder, Georgina S., Riley, Simon C., Stone, Nicole and Glaiser, Anna (2004) Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues. Contraception, 70 (2), 135-139. (doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2004.03.010).

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Abstract

Medical students at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland can volunteer to participate in an undergraduate options project that gives them the opportunity to provide sex education for secondary school (high school) pupils. Using a questionnaire presenting a set of fictional case histories, we assessed medical students' theoretical confidence at dealing with sexual health consultations. Students who had participated in delivering peer-led sex education felt significantly more confident at discussing sexual health issues with patients of all age groups (p = 0.001) than students who had not participated in the project. All students felt more comfortable seeing patients of the same gender as themselves but more than half felt that their training left them generally ill-equipped to handle sexual health consultations

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Published date: 2004
Keywords: sex education, medical student education

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Local EPrints ID: 45045
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45045
ISSN: 0010-7824
PURE UUID: fd2df417-9a52-420e-8354-0507f73e0ac6
ORCID for Nicole Stone: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-8699

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Date deposited: 26 Mar 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:53

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Author: Georgina S. Faulder
Author: Simon C. Riley
Author: Nicole Stone ORCID iD
Author: Anna Glaiser

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