Article #5 Rhetorical Precis

In Andy Wearn and Harsh Bhoopatkar’s article, “Evaluation of consent for peer physical examination: students reflect on their clinical skills learning experience” (2006), they assert that medical students accept and support a formal consent process for peer physical examination.  They support their claims by exploring the students view for formal consents; most students had read the participant information sheet prior to signing with 78% giving consent.  The purpose of this article was to show the opinions of the medical students in order to prove that peer evaluation is important in the early clinical skills.  The audience for this article was clinical teachers and students undergoing residency in school.