Involving students in care is mentioned in the treatment consents at teaching hospitals here in the USA. The student would only be performing an exam as part of a procedure that was necessary for care. Any student to be involved in a case is introduced to the patient. Marching in multiple students to examine someone under anesthesia like that is disgusting. How could someone ever think this was okay? And somehow everyone gets the training they need.

Nobody needs a zillion pelvic exams at one time. If anyone tried that garbage with a patient of mine they would be tossed out of the room. I have tossed an entire team of pediatricians out of my NICU patient's room because they wanted the parents tossed out so they could see the rare birth defect. I actually said "you can do anything you need with the parents present" and "I AM NOT RUNNING A FREAK SHOW HERE" after I found out these docs were not assigned to the case. I was backed up by my head NICU doc. Guess I am glad I am a nurse in the US.