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To ensure the security of the patient\u2019s data, it is important that medical professionals receive informed consent from the patient, that physical conditions are met to take a photograph, and that these medical images are stored correctly. This study aimed to determine if medical professionals of an academic hospital make use of medical photography, and how the content is obtained, stored, transferred, and used. Methods: A 30-question questionnaire was distributed across 29 medical departments at Centro Hospitalar Universit\u00e1rio de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o (CHUSJ), a tertiary referral and teaching hospital in Porto, Portugal, with approximately 900 medical professionals. Quantitative statistical methods were used to analyse questionnaire responses. Results: There were a total of 257 respondents. Of these, 93% used medical photography, 70% used it to document a patient\u2019s clinical progress, 70% to ask for a second opinion, 56% for education, 65% for research and publication, and 68% to present at medical conferences. Medical photography was used by 33% weekly and 36% monthly, with 71% of respondents always asking for the patients\u2019 consent before taking a photograph. Doctors aged 20\u201340 years used photography more often than doctors over 40 years of age to document the clinical progress of the patients (77% and 52%, respectively, p = 0.01) and to ask for a second opinion (78% and 52%, respectively, p &lt; 0.001). Conclusions: Our study shows that medical photography is a common practice amongst medical doctors. However, appropriate measures need to be created to obtain patients\u2019 consent, store images, and sure the security of patients\u2019 information.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph19127304","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,14]],"date-time":"2022-06-14T23:50:14Z","timestamp":1655250614000},"page":"7304","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Medical Photography Usage Amongst Doctors at a Portuguese Hospital"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Mariana","family":"Cura","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"H\u00e9lio","family":"Alves","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unit of Anatomy, Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hern\u00e2ni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2585-200X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 Paulo","family":"Andrade","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unit of Anatomy, Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hern\u00e2ni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"CINTESIS@RISE, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Pasquali, P. 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