Table 2.
Comparison of Academic and Community-Based Teaching Sites By Location
| Academic | Community | P Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of encounters evaluated | 185 | 328 | |
| Mean age of adult patients, y | 58.3 | 55.8 | .24 |
| Mean number of concurrent medical problems per patient | 1.8 | 1.9 | .38 |
| Mean number of teaching interventions per patient | 2 | 2.1 | p=0.27 |
| Agreement of preceptor teaching inventions with student Documentation* | 0.88 | 0.87 | — |
| Mean number of patients seen by student per session | 3.9 | 4 | .47 |
| Percentage of patients seen by students more than once | 5.4 | 9.4 | .16 |
| Percentage of teaching interventions directly related to presenting problem† | 94.5 | 96.1 | .45 |
*
Zero indicates no agreement and one indicates full agreement between the documented content of the teaching intervention made by the preceptor and the learning point received by the student.
†
Indicates the percentage of preceptor teaching interventions in which the focus was related specifically to the presenting diagnosis or problem.