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Medical students gain knowledge of doctor-patient relationships with

eight home visits through the Longitudinal Patient Centered Experience

By MEGHAN GILBERT

The State News, MSU

Easy conversation and laughter filled Cathy Variano's Lansing home

Thursday while she explained her health-care coverage as a patient

with chronic illness.

Variano, 55, laughed about the attractiveness of her doctors as a

first priority while second-year medical students Aenlle-Matusz

and Tom Bryson jotted down notes.

" I don't make anything easy for them, " she said, laughing.

Aenlle-Matusz and Bryson have been learning the patient's perspective

from Variano for more than a year as part of the Longitudinal Patient

Centered Experience program in MSU's College of Human Medicine.

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