title: Patients' feelings about the presence of medical students in a New Teaching Hospital in Southwestern Nigeria.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study aimed to evaluate how patients feel about the introduction of medical students into a former general hospital transformed to a teaching hospital in southwestern Nigeria and to also assess the extent to which they are willing to involve medical students in the management of their conditions.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a descriptive cross-sectional study, a sample of 251 randomly selected patients were interviewed using a pretested questionnaire that assessed patients' demography, patients' acceptance of and reaction to the involvement of medical students in their clinical care including the specific procedures the patients would allow medical students to perform.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two hundred and fifty-one patients with mean age ± standard deviation of 37.33 ± 19.01 (age range = 16-120 years; M:F = 1:1.26) were recruited between January 01 and March 31, 2013. Most patients (86.5%) preferred to be treated in a teaching hospital and were comfortable with medical students as observers (83.7%) and serving as the doctors' assistant (83.3%) during common diagnostic procedures. Men were more willing to have invasive procedures such as insertion of urinary catheter (56.6% vs. 43.4%, P = 0.001). Acceptability of medical students (such as willingness of patients to have students read their medical notes) was significantly higher in nonsurgical specialties than in surgical specialties (77.5% vs. 22.5%, P< 0.001). Factors associated with a positive disposition include age> 40 years, male gender, and higher level of education as well as consultation in nonsurgical specialties (P = 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical students are well received into this new teaching hospital setting. However, there is a need for more education of younger, less educated female patients of surgical subspecialties so that they can understand their importance as irreplaceable partners in the training of medical students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Philip Babatunde
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Adebayo
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Stephen Olabode
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Asaolu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Adeolu Oladayo
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Akinboro
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Adeseye Abiodun
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Akintunde
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Olawale Adebayo
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Olakulehin
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Olugbenga Edward
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Ayodele
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005006:Ethnicity; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D057240:Patient Preference / Q000523:psychology*; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce