Preceptor Resources

Background

The tools in this toolbox will serve as a resource to assist physicians in their role as preceptors.  Resources below were created via a partnership between the MMA and University of Minnesota Medical School known as the MMA Preceptor Initiative.  Thank you to the MMA Preceptor Initiative Advisory Group, the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Medical Educator Development and Scholarship Program (MEDS), Darin Brink, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and Jon Hallberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Community Preceptor Toolbox

Training modules

• Providing Effective Feedback
• Medical Students Add Value to Your Practice
• Time Management
• Precepting in the Presence of the Patient (PIPP) - NEW

Tip sheets

• Providing Effective Feedback
• Medical Students Add Value to Your Practice
• Time Management - UPDATED 11/13/19
• Precepting in the Presence of the Patient - NEW

Preceptor and Medical Student Video Testimonials

• Raymond G. Christensen, MD, Gateway Family Health Clinic
• Ryan Harden, MD, MS, Gateway Family Health Clinic

Comprehensive Video (Modules and Testimonials Combined)

• Preceptor Initiative – Combined Videos

Preceptor Thank You Ad

• May/June 2016 Issue of Minnesota Medicine
• November/December Issue of Minnesota Medicine
• Jan/Feb 2018 Issue of Minnesota Medicine
• Upcoming ad to be linked here, noting issue.

Best Practices

• Veterans Affairs Longitudinal Undergraduate Medical Education (VALUE) - Video

Additional Resources

University of Minnesota Family Medicine Community Preceptor

Community preceptors for the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health make a significant impact on the success of medical student programming. If you're a community physician, consider teaching for us.

• Teaching Tip: One Minute Preceptor (Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators)
• Teaching Tip: Feedback (Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators)

Improving the Role of Preceptor - News

Medical Student Documentation Changes

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), via changes in Policy transmittal, Pub 100-04 Medicare Claims Processing Manual, now explicitly allows appropriately supervised student documentation to be submitted for billing.  
  • Academic Medicine, Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Policy Change from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provides an Opportunity to Improve Medical Student Education and Recruit Community Preceptors, October 2018.