It offers both a series of outpatient counselling sessions (two or three are advised to make a difference), or inpatient care for more severe cases.

It also showed that 29 per cent of people received inpatient care, 15 per cent day care and 11 per cent treatment at home.

Connecting more medical devices to a so-called internet of things will also enable doctors to monitor patients without the need for costly inpatient care.

This treatment was based out outpatient care, and would cost $200 to $300, a fraction of the $1,500 to $3,000 that inpatient care cost.

From the tenth onwards, the students take part in the urgency and emergency services, as well as in hospital inpatient care, always under faculty supervision.