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Objective

Sexual medicine has relevance in many specialities including Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Ob&Gyn), Urology and Endocrinology. The objective of this study was to explore the training in sexual medicine within these specialities.

Methods

An online questionnaire-based study was conducted and circulated by the European Societies of trainees in the four specialities (EFPT, ENTOG, ESRU and EYES) between July 2015 and June 2016. Trainees and young specialist were queried on their attitudes toward sexual medicine and extend of training they received.

Results

Questionnaires from 366 participants from 40 countries were available for analysis. Trainees were mostly in 4th year of training (23.4%) and 11.2% were young specialists. 61.2% were female, while 38.8% were male and the average age was 31.4 years. 27.9% worked in Psychiatry, 15.8% in Ob&Gyn, 40.7% in Urology, and 15.6% in Endocrinology. Sexual medicine training was considered an important or very important part of specialty training by 79.6%. It was considered very important especially by trainees in Ob&Gyn (43.1%), but also by trainees in Urology (37.6%), Endocrinology (36.8%) and Psychiatry (34.4%). Overall, 69.9% had not received training in sexual medicine. Especially Ob&Gyn trainees had no exposure (87.3%), followed by trainees in Psychiatry (64.2%), Urology (62.6%) and Endocrinology (58.2%). 18.0% did not know if sexual medicine training was part of their training curriculum, 48.1% did not have it as a part of their curriculum and only 25.7% had it as a mandatory (13.4%) or optional (12.3%) part of their curriculum. When sexual medicine training was incorporated in the curriculum it was most frequently as a combination of theoretical and clinical training (50.0%) or only theoretical training (44.9%).

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