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As part of your responsibilities to medical students, you should:

• Encourage and support medical students.
• Involve yourself actively in teaching if students are attached to your team.
• Be aware of the professional competencies to be achieved by the students.
• Explain to patients that they have the right to refuse to participate in student teaching and reassure patients that such a refusal will not prejudice their treatment in any way.
• Ensure that students are introduced to patients.
• Ensure that patient privacy and confidentiality are maintained and that students understand and respect this requirement.
• Ensure that when a student is involved in specific examinations or procedures on patients under general anaesthesia, written consent has been obtained on the full extent of the student’s involvement.

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