Information for Clinical Preceptors
What is a Preceptor?
A preceptor is a practicing physician, PA, or other licensed health care professional who gives instruction, training and supervision to a PA student. This may be done individually or as part of a team. The goal is to develop well-informed, resilient and compassionate PAs who provide patient-centered and service-oriented medical care in diverse environments.
Become a Preceptor
George Fox is interested in PA preceptors who provide:
- Medical care across the life span to include infants, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly
- Women’s health care (to include prenatal and gynecologic care)
- Care for conditions requiring surgical management, including pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative care
- Care for behavioral and mental health conditions
Why Precept?
- Preceptors receive an honorarium (must precept at least two students per year)
- Continuing Medical Education Category I and II hours
- Intrinsic rewards of teaching
- Impact the future of a PA who plans to work in your city, county or state
General Goals of the Clinical Year
The clinical year takes students from the theoretical classroom setting to an active, hands-on learning environment to prepare them for a lifetime of continued refinement of skills and expanded knowledge as a practicing PA. To this end, the goals of the clinical year include:
- Apply didactic knowledge to supervised clinical practice
- Develop and sharpen clinical problem-solving skills
- Expand and develop medical knowledge
- Refine the art of history taking and physical examination skills
- Sharpen oral presentation and written documentation skills
- Develop an understanding of the PA role in health care delivery
- Prepare for the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam
- Develop interpersonal skills and professionalism necessary to function as part of a medical team
Preceptor Opportunities
Four-week rotations are offered in the following areas:
- Family medicine
- Internal medicine (inpatient exposure)
- Emergency medicine
- Surgery medicine
- Pediatric medicine
- Prenatal and gynecology medicine
- Behavior and mental health
- Electives
