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medical students value opportunity learn patients supplement traditional facultyled education however longterm followup understand educational impact experiences lacking surveyed medical students conducted nonmedical virtual encounters transplant recipients living donors understand impact students patient care approach 12 students completed surgery clerkship july 2020 september 2021 surveyed nonmedical patient encounter january 2023 quantitative qualitative survey data analyzed using descriptive statistics inductive thematic analysis respectively 27 respondents 46 response rate 444 completed experience 1 ago 556 completed experience 2 ago nearly respondents 963 agreed experience effective way learn organ donation transplantation learning patients beneficial development doctor 50 felt experience changed provide care patients qualitatively students reported activity cultivated empathy patients provided unique insight patients illness experiences enhanced understanding longitudinal patientsurgeon relationship utilizing patients teachers transplant surgery taught medical students organ donation transplantation also built empathy highlighted unique nonclinical aspects patient experience persisted time one first studies evaluate patientled teaching type year later assess unique influence medical student development