Rewarding community-based preceptors

How students learn from community-based preceptors.

OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

Recognizing and rewarding nurse preceptors in critical care. Some answers.

Contemporary teaching strategies of exemplary community preceptors--is technology helping?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many schools rely upon community preceptors for office-based education of medical students. These preceptors struggle to balance clinical care with the learning needs of students. We aim to gain a deeper understanding of the teaching rewards and challenges of current community preceptors. METHODS Five schools' family medicine clerkship directors conducted in-depth in...

Defining differences in the instructional styles of community preceptors.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Variability exists in the instructional experiences of medical students in clinical settings. As relationships between community-based physicians and medical students expand, it is important to promote instructional styles that enhance teaching and learning. This study identified attitudes and approaches toward teaching that distinguish preceptors with high student rat...

Are personal digital assistants an acceptable incentive for rural community-based preceptors?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's objective was to evaluate the acceptability, effect, and use of handheld computers (also known as personal digital assistants or PDAs) as a reward for undergraduate rural community-based family medicine preceptors. METHODS All rural, undergraduate family physician teachers who accepted an undergraduate student for a 1-month placement were offered the cho...