Reflections of medical students on visiting chronically ill older patients in the home

illness necessitates educating future physicians about chron-ic illness care. Weill Cornell Medical College’s Chronic Ill-ness Care in the Home Setting Program (CIC-HSP), a mandatory part of the primary care clerkship, exposes medical students to persons with chronic illness via a half day of house calls with a geriatrics team. The investigators sought to qualitatively assess the effect of the CIC-HSP on medical students and recent medical graduates. Fifty-two prospective participants were approached, and 50 (96%) with varying training levels and time since completing the program were interviewed. Most respondents (63%) found that the home visits taught them important approaches to caring for the chron-ically ill, such as individualizing care to meet patients ’ indi-vidual needs and improving quality of life as a goal of care