Quote Originally Posted by doc
You don't recommend a pelvic exam until someone has been sexually active for 3 years?????

The AAP and ACOG recommend a pelvic after the 1st sexual intercourse experience and yearly thereafter. The youngsters are the ones with the highest rates of STD's. Why are you not doing exams until long long after this window?
Having worked in the inner city for years and seeing many many many immaculate conceptions and even more spontaneous STD's ("from the toilet seat" I guess ) we don't go by history.
At my medical school, and with the gyn oncologists I worked with this summer, they all recommend (and taught us for our exams) the pap 3 years after their 1st intercourse or by the age of 21, and if normal, then every year until 30 then every other year for the pap while still having the annual exam. Apparently it's just been changed recently, at least that's what I was told.