Table 1.

The questionnaire administered to the subjects, comprising three dimensions and 15 questions

Dimension	#	Question
Choice	1	Professors should confront the patients who do not allow medical students to examine them.
	2	The patient should not be concerned about gender conformity with medical students examining them.
	3*	The patient has the right to accept or reject examination by the medical student.
Information	4	By accepting to be examined by the medical student, the patient has implicitly accepted the possibility of physical injury.
	5	By accepting to be examined by the medical student, the patient has implicitly accepted the possibility of emotional injury.
	6	Medical students should not tell the patients that they are examining them for the purpose of learning, because patients would not let them do that.
	7	Before examination, the patient need not be aware of medical students’ experience level.
	8*	The patient should be aware of being examined by medical students, not the real doctor.
Understanding	9	A patient accepting to be admitted to an educational center indirectly has agreed to be examined by medical students.
	10	Asking for permission to examine the patient will disrupt the learning process.
Continuous	11	Examining the patients who cannot or do not have the possibility to cancel the examination is a good opportunity to improve the medical students’ skills.
	12	Only the patient has the right to agree or disagree with the examination process, not his or her accompanying person.

* Recoded questions