Today with the more open sexual freedom in societies, the demand on physicians to support their patients has also increased, not only in terms of choice but also in terms of sexual function and dysfunction. However, as Coleman et al. In fact, possibly due to the increasing amount of medical knowledge essential to the graduation of medical students, the teaching time allocated to sexual medicine is diminishing rather than increasing 1. One of the tasks of physicians is to improve the quality of life of patients through good sexual health.
Little is known about the factors that influence the graduation of medical students in relation to the preparation of their approach to sexual health care.
It has been reported that some sexual health topics are inadequately covered in graduate medical programs such as areas related to the youth and the elderly, including sexual dysfunction 1. Hence, teaching hours for sexual education in undergraduate medical courses are frequently insufficient to prepare physicians for their roles to treat sexual health issues, which results in substantial dissatisfaction among medical students 2.
This lack of preparation may be reflected in consultations, as patients are often unwilling to discuss concerns related to sexuality with physicians. Many patients do not think that physicians have the necessary skills to help them with sexual issues and think that their doctors would not provide effective treatment 1. In Brazil, professors completed a semi-structured questionnaire about topics related to sexuality in Brazilian medicine schools 5.
The majority of the professors gave 6 hours of lectures related to sexuality in the third and fourth years. Gynecology About one quarter said they taught courses with titles related to sexuality. Sexual habits and the impact of diseases Thus, in Brazil, programs on sexual education are diverse in respect to content and quality and the effect of courses on sexual medicine is difficult to assess.
