Table 1.

Patients’ approaches to students’ learning

Learning relationship	Attending relationship
• Mutual relationship	• One-way relationship
• Patient as active participant	• Patient as passive participant
• Joint action	• Training object

Patient-student encounters and interaction develop in to either a learning relationship or an attending relationship. A learning relationship is based on mutual relationship between patients and students which results in that patients are actively participating in students’ learning and they both experience it as a joint action. An attending relationship is based on one-way relationship between patients and students resulting in patient as a passive participant just letting students to practice on their bodies.