A Sex Content Scale was developed to evaluate a series of simulated interviews conducted with 24 second year medical students and an actress who was carefully coached to reveal a specific sexual problem as she felt comfortable with the student and as he/she asked her appropriate questions. A patient response form was also developed to quantify the simulated patient's personal reactions to the student interviewer. Scores from these measures were correlated with the scales of Lief and Reed's Sexual Knowledge and Attitude Test and the Sex Guilt Scale of Mosher's Forced Choice Guilt Inventory. Although none of the instruments studied were able to discriminate students who had participated in a sexuality program from those who had not; the measures were found reliable and their inner correlations suggest that their future use has promise for more direct evaluations of medical school sex education curricula. (Author)