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Education:
Clinical Preceptors
Society of Clinical Preceptors
Frederick Haeseler, M.D., Director
Mission
Yale
University School of Medicine is deeply committed to providing students with
an outstanding clinical education. To achieve this goal, the school has designed
clinical clerkships and other courses that provide students the necessary
experiences for professional growth. Whether the students succeed in these
courses depends heavily on the teaching skills of the individual faculty
who directly observe students and actively guide them in achievement in clinical
competency. Outstanding clinical teaching, and the integration of the clinical
medical sciences into a formal medical education, requires participation
of a dedicated and talented corps of clinical preceptors, representing both
full time and voluntary community faculty, who come together through their
common shared purpose. Each clinical preceptor represents an important link
within the network of educators who contribute to the professional development
of Yale medical students. Wherever these physicians work with Yale medical
students, be it on the wards or in the ambulatory office setting, teaching
the essentials of physical diagnosis and patient care, they have assumed
an extremely important role. Each provides one or more of the many pieces
that, when assembled into a whole, constitutes a Yale medical education.
The School of Medicine seeks to bring all those who precept our medical
students (be they full-time faculty in the medical school, clinical faculty
working in the private sector, or practitioners without formal faculty
appointments) into a SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PRECEPTORS. Until now, these dedicated
teachers have constituted an informal, virtual society of clinical preceptors.
In establishing the SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PRECEPTORS the School of Medicine
recognizes, celebrates and provides support for faculty whose level of
teaching commitment and engagement as clinical preceptors for Yale medical
students reaches far beyond the ordinary. The school hopes to maximize
a sense of involvement, affiliation and contribution on the part of all
those physician-educator preceptors who take up these roles in a wide variety
of clinical venues.
Eligibility and Responsibilities
Eligibility:
Faculty who teach and supervise students learning clinical skills and/or
evaluating and caring for patients
Examples Include:
- Tutors in the Preclinical Clerkship [formerly the Doctor-Patient Encounter
(DPE)] Course (first and second year students)
- Clerkship Preceptors (third and fourth year students)
- Preceptors in Longitudinal Clinics (fifth year and MD/PhD students)
Level of Involvement in Medical Student Teaching 1
- Be available to precept students for at least one clerkship rotation
per academic year
Typical Responsibilities
- Directly observe and give feedback to students interacting with real
or standardized patients
- Assist students in developing a specific set of clinical skills
- Read and comment upon several complete write-ups
- Listen to and critique several complete oral presentations
- Provide formative and summative feedback
- Career counseling if appropriate
- Facilitate case-based clinical reasoning sessions
Format
- In-patient or out-patient bedside teaching
- Interactive classroom teaching focused upon clinical skill development
1 “Medical student teaching” is
defined as teaching that is exclusively for medical students and
does not include activities, such as attending rounds, that are
primarily for the benefit of house staff, PA students, or nursing
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Support from the Office of Education
Communication:
- Temporary NET ID and Internet access to Yale University network resources pending
faculty appointment (when access is automatic)
- Web-based curriculum (Blackboard)
- Web-based clerkship evaluation system (E*Value)
- Medical library: electronic journals and textbooks; electronic collections
such as MD Consult and Up-to-Date; software for PDA's
- Announcements and calendars: (Medical center calendar; CME courses;
Grand rounds, seminars, and faculty development events)
- Links to Yale directories and catalogues.
- Access to computer help desk and technical support
- Listing at the Society of Clinical Preceptors Web Site
Faculty Development: Strengthen Teaching Skills and Expand Medical Expertise
- Tuition free attendance at the Society's CME courses, seminars,
and workshops
Support for Teaching (Level of Support Depends Upon Time Commitment)
- Temporary Yale University ID badge pending faculty appointment: authorizes
admission to various University facilities and libraries and discounted
membership at Yale gymnasium
- Parking (when visiting the medical school for teaching medical students)
- Annual Yale School of Medicine Certificate of Appreciation
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