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The questionnaire was generated on Google Forms\u00ae platform and sent via email to each student who was part of the telemonitoring team.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Sixty students were included in the analysis (median age 25\u00a0years-old [interquartile range 24\u201326], 70% women). Of those, 61.6% collaborated on the telehealth program for more than 6\u00a0months, 65.1% performed more than 100 telemonitoring calls, 95.2% reported difficulties in contacting the patient through phone calls; 60.3% believe some patients might have felt insecure about being approached by medical students and not by graduate professionals; and 39.6% reported eventual system instabilities. The main strengths reported by the students were related to the system usability and to the self-perception of the quality of healthcare delivered to the patients. 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