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Academic Medicine, Vol. 88, No. 1 / January 2013 9 encounters in the nursing home offer an excellent opportunity to teach students about the physician–patient relationship. At the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, we recently developed a course to increase clinical training in history and physical examination and student exposure to patients with chronic illness/disability.2 All 104 firstyear students spend four half-days in nursing homes with a geriatrics physician. Students work in teams to independently evaluate patients and then review findings with the preceptor. Formal partnerships now exist with 14 community nursing homes.