Consent and confidentiality in teaching in general practice: survey of patients' views on presence of students: Table 1

Abstract

Medical schools are expanding their teaching in general practices,1 2 but there are few studies on patients' responses to the presence of medical students at consultations with general practitioners. In 1974 Wright reported that up to 40% of patients in one practice preferred not to discuss personal anxieties, family problems, or sexual problems in the presence of a student.3 Seabrook and Evans discussed general practice teaching with patients and carers.4 Patients expressed concern about whether they would be given a choice about a student being present and reported bad experiences of hospital teaching. Most recently, Cooke et al concluded from a questionnaire survey that only 3% of patients had negative views about the presence of a student.5 We report patients' views about consent and confidentiality using a questionnaire developed from semistructured interviews. The questionnaire had four …