The Feasibility of Longitudinal Patient Contacts in a Large Medical School

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TABLE 1 Student activities: Number of encounters with their patients per student, per patient category by type of encounter during 4 to 8 months

	Home Visit	Practice Visit	Joined Patient Elsewhere	Phone Contact	Digital Contact	Sum of Face-to-Face Contact/Patient Category	All types of contact/patient category Mean (SD, range)
Elderly Patient	1.8 (0.8)	0.4 (1.0)	0.3 (0.6)	0.9 (1.1)	0.6 (1.7)	2.5 (1.3)	4.1 (2.1, 1-10)
Young Family	1.5 (0.8)	0.3 (0.4)	0.5 (0.5)	0.5 (1.0)	1.3 (1.6)	2.2 (1.5)	4.1 (3.4, 1-9)
Cancer Patient	1.6 (1.6)	0.2 (0.5)	0.7 (1.3)	0.8 (1.4)	1.1 (1.8)	2.5( 1.9)	4.5 (3.0, 1-12)
Chronically Ill Patient	1.4 (0.8)	0.6 (0.9)	0.4 (0.6)	0.9 (1.3)	0.7 (1.2)	2.3 (0.7)	4.0 (2.0, 1-10)
Total Number of Patient Contacts per Category, per Student	6.3 (2.3)	1.4 (2.0)	1.9 (1.9)	3.1 (3.4)	3.7 (3.8)	9.5 (3.2)	16.7 (5.4)

Note: n = 25. Values are mean (standard deviation).