Support Learning Environment
- Teach by example
- Create supportive learning environment
- Encourage students to ask questions
- Give informative balanced feedback
- Heighten student’s understanding and practice of cultural and linguistic competency
- Demonstrate the development of physician-patient relationship and communication
- Invite students to join community activities outside the clinic
Orientation
- Oversee student orientation
- Review informational packet to assigned student (includes welcome letter, invitation to set up first day meeting, and background information on clinic site)
- Review student background information and clinical skills inventory list before first meeting
- Inform office staff of OPEX preceptor program and assigned student
- Make any necessary patient scheduling adjustments to facilitate orientation and supervision
- Identify scheduled patients for students to see with preceptor or clinical staff
- Post notices in office notifying patients of student in training
Clinical Training
- Oversee and coordinate clinical training in preceptor’s office setting
- Supervise students performing areas of the physical exam on patients
- Establish and review learning objectives with student
- Coordinate student’s educational activities (student schedules), patient assignment, and patient presentation
- Lead discussion of clinical cases
- Help refine student presentation skills
- Conduct midpoint review
- Submit final student evaluation to coordinator