II. Approach
- Help students understand the rotation
- Distribute a written overview at the start of the rotation (and review with students)
- Include focus areas, core concepts and expectations
- Learn about the students
- Career goals
- Prior rotations and experiences
- Specific topics of interest (might lead to presenting a paper or short presentation during rotation)
- Student's Perception of their strengths and the areas they need to improve
- Give feedback throughout the rotation
- See the one minute preceptor below
- Give short, specific feedback each focused on a single teaching point for a few minutes daily
- Reinforce positive habits
- Final evaluation should reflect the cummulative feedback given during the rotation
- Treat Students as Colleagues
- Share how do you balance your work and life
- One Minute Preceptor
- Student commits to a diagnosis or clinical syndrome ("What do you think is the cause?")
- Student presents supporting evidence ("Why do you think this is the cause and what was your DDx?")
- Teach General Rules that apply to the specific diagnosis (core concepts, pearls, or strategies)
- Reinforce what was right
- Correct mistakes
- Distribute the teaching (for the student's experience and for the preceptor's time)
- Medical residents Teaching Medical Students
- Following the patient's care with a consultant (e.g. surgery of an emergency department patient)
- Shadowing another provider to see a patient with an interesting presentation
- Experiencing the front desk, nursing triage, rooming of patients, lab, imaging
III. Resources
- One Minute Preceptor (Dr. Margaret Dow, Mayo Clinic)
- 1 Minute Preceptor: Precepting Medical Students (Dr. Michelle Rodriguez)
- Tips To Being an Effective Preceptor (Dr. Paul Paulman)
IV. References
- (2022) Presc Lett 29(7): 41
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| Definition (MSH) | Practical experience in medical and health-related services that occurs as part of an educational program wherein the professionally-trained student works outside the academic environment under the supervision of an established professional in the particular field. |
| Concepts | Educational Activity (T065) |
| MSH | D011231 |
| English | Preceptorship, Preceptorships, preceptorships, preceptorship |
| Swedish | Praktik under handledning |
| Czech | odborný výcvik |
| Finnish | Terveydenhuollon työharjoittelu |
| Russian | NASTAVNICHESTVO, НАСТАВНИЧЕСТВО |
| Polish | Preceptorship |
| Norwegian | Praksisopplæring, Utplassering |
| Spanish | Preceptoria, Tutoria |
| Portuguese | Preceptoria, Tutoria |
| French | Stage pratique encadré, Stage pratique en milieu professionnel, Stage pratique guidé |
| German | Berufsausbildung, praktische |
| Italian | Specializzazione sotto supervisore |
| Dutch | Medische stage |
