Medical Issues: Can Students Examine Non-Maḥram Patients When Future Use of Experience Is Uncertain?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Medical Issues: Can Students Examine Non-Maḥram Patients When Future Use of Experience Is Uncertain?

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Question #1301:

In certain situations, we are faced with instances of examining a non-maḥram patient’s body without being able to tell whether we will make use of the experience we acquire from such an examination? However, this is a requirement of the curriculum and an assignment by the professor to the student. In view of this, is it permissible for us to carry out these examinations?

Answer #1301:

The medical examination being part of the curriculum or an assignment required from the student by his professor does not justify the commission of what Islamic law has decreed unlawful. However, the criterion here is the need for the training to save the human life or the requirement of a necessity.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Medical Issues