A surgeon who touched the pubic areas of three female medical students under the guise of teaching them physical examination techniques has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that his actions were sexually motivated.
Bipin Jha, who worked as a locum consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, suggested impromptu training sessions to the three students, although the trust had warned its teaching doctors not to use students in practice examinations.
One of the students told the medical practitioners tribunal that Jha had first checked lymph nodes under her arms, then asked her to check his abdomen, lying down on a bed and lifting his shirt. She palpated his stomach, and he then said it was her turn to lie down. …