Background-Attending rounds have transitioned away from the patient's bedside toward the hallway and conference rooms. This transition has brought into question how to best teach on medicine services.

The majority of the patients in the study were receptive to medical student participation in this ambulatory setting. Patients should be adequately prepared for medical student involvement and each patient should have an opportunity to spend time alone with the attending physician. A sizable minority (a third) of patients do not desire medical student participation.

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