West African journal of medicine
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It is most pertinent that medical students are taught the necessary skills for digital rectal examination (DRE) before they become doctors. ⋯ The students have been taught DRE and a good number of them have performed it. Few of the DRE done by the students were cross-checked by a doctor. Most of the students have problems differentiating BPH from cancer of the prostate and many of them were not very confident of their findings on DRE.