Preceptors
Preceptors offer guidance, mentorship and dedication to medical students and to medical education.
We appreciate, in advance, your partnership and the shared knowledge and skills that will help shape the future generation of doctors. The impact you will make is immeasurable. By participating in our preceptor program, your physicians and health system will enjoy many benefits. Additionally, studies show that most physicians practice within 100 miles of where they received medical training. Through this experience, our medical students will develop connections with your facility and team members, and this time should be considered a long-term investment in your physician base.
Preceptors are known to be:
- Are more energized in their daily work and practice
- Kept up to date in best practices and innovative care
- Invested in and engaged with the next generation of physicians
- More strongly tied to the profession
- Proud they are contributing to strengthen their community
- Appreciative of the ease of obtaining Continuing Medical Education credits
- More connected to their own training and reflective on their path in medicine
- Will find value in the access to the suite of Meritus medical library resources
Patients benefit from this experience as well:
- Enjoy receiving more time with the care team at every visit
- Are proud to be part of the learning experience for future physicians
- Trust their physicians more knowing they are also teaching and staying up to date
- Hope to see these medical students graduate and stay in the area to practice
- Recognize a greater diversity in their care team
As a health system, your teams will:
- Find that medical students bring energy, joy, and inquisitiveness
- Have a greater appreciation for the work involved in medical education
- Love having new faces and team members
- Believe this will benefit recruitment
- Frequently learn new things
- Appreciate the extra hands to help with patient care
- Have opportunity to expand employee's supervision and leadership skills
- Opportunity for employees to obtain continuing education credits
- Exposes employees to new knowledge and practice
- May result in the capacity to alter or expand services for patients/clients
- Elevates the hospital to a teaching institution
- Exposes clinicians to new knowledge and clinical ideas
- Provides the foundation for students to become future clinical educators
- Facilitates recruitment
- CME for teaching hours
- Allows for professional growth, often with appointment to professional delegation