CLINICAL PRECEPTORSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Course overview

This course describes how supervised clinical experience can allow students to apply knowledge gained in the didactic portion of a program to clinical practice. The importance of understanding each student perception about clinical preceptorship, their past experience and technical competence to provide clinical learning opportunities that support the student's individual learning needs are discussed. In addition, understanding the value of how to develop learning objectives, fostering clinical reasoning, dealing with conflict and preparing for a formal evaluation upon completion of the clinical rotation are also discussed.