Table 1.

Information of early clinical exposure (ECE) groups

Information	Group A	Group B	Group C
Distance from the university campus to the ECE hospital (in km)	0.27	5.2	9.3
Number of mentors	13	12	16
Number of mentees	17	17	16
Mentor’s specialty categories	12	10	11
Number of chief physicians as mentors	11	3	12
Student retention rate of each group	7/17 (41.1%)	10/17 (58.8%)	12/16 (75%)
Proportion of students who fulfilled the 24 clinical trainee hours and the biweekly reflective journals during the semester	7/17 (41.1%)	12/17 (70%)	12/16 (75%)