[Insufficient sex education in medicine]

The present paper--actually a synthesis of the author's thesis for M.D. degree--aims at pointing out the need there is for an MD-oriented education in normal and pathological sexuality to be implemented. A 228-medical student/175-physician sample was administered the well-known SKAT test altogether with a questionnaire dealing with sexual personal experience, contraception procedures, and self-evaluation on knowledge, training, and personal attitude toward sex-related matters. Results showed mistakes and misinterpretations in the area of knowledge of both groups: Personal experience appears to be a physician's sole guideline. Doctors' reluctance to approaching sexual matters when writing clinical records was also observed, an aspect confirming physicians' limitations--in connection not only with knowledge per se but also with inhibitions shared by both a professional and his or her patient. Thus, the convenience of implementing sexual education as another subject in curriculum is suggested.