Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
Annals of Family Medicine
  • My alerts
Annals of Family Medicine

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Follow annalsfm on Twitter
  • Visit annalsfm on Facebook
NewsDepartmentsF

BUILDING BETTER CLINICAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES: A LEARNING COLLABORATIVE

Mary Theobald
The Annals of Family Medicine January 2019, 17 (1) 87-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2344
Mary Theobald
MBA
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) continues to invest in strategies to increase the pool of community-based preceptors and the quality of training at ambulatory sites. Five interprofessional teams are implementing these tactics:

  • Tactic 1: Work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise student documentation guidelines

  • Tactic 2: Integrate interprofessional/interdisciplinary education into ambulatory primary care settings through integrated clinical clerkships

  • Tactic 3: Develop standardized onboarding process for students and preceptors & integrate students into the work of ambulatory primary care settings in useful and authentic ways

  • Tactic 4: Develop educational collaboratives across departments, specialties, professions, and institutions to improve administrative efficiencies

  • Tactic 5: Promote productivity incentive plans that include teaching and develop a culture of teaching in clinical settings

The Tactic 4 team has launched a multiyear pilot, funded by the American Board of Family Medicine, called Building Better Clinical Training Experiences: A Learning Collaborative. During the pilot, family medicine departments will participate in 1 of 3 projects to implement, evaluate, and disseminate innovative approaches to standardize the onboarding of students and to engage community preceptors.

Project 1: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot student onboarding resources and processes

Goals

  • Ease the administrative burden on community preceptors by standardizing documentation

  • Help preceptors integrate students more easily into practices

  • Increase student value to practices

  • Aid teaching programs in administering clinical clerkship experiences

Onboarding materials/processes will include

  • A passport that captures a student’s background and training. For the preceptor, the form includes a professional bio, clinical rotation background (graduation date, previous rotations, procedures learned), and objectives for the current rotation. For the practice administration, the form includes contact details and evidence that the student is ready for clinical work (proof of HIPAA training, background check, immunizations, etc).

  • Education for students on how to hit the ground running at their clerkship site.

  • Online training for students on “How to Create a High-Quality Note in the Medical Record,” “How to Perform Medication Reconciliations,” and “Motivational Interviewing.”

  • Self-developed, pre-clinical curriculum to meet goals and objectives outlined in the appendix of the AAMC’s 2008 Recommendations for Preclerkship Clinical Skills Education for Undergraduate Medical Education.

Project 2: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot standardized preceptor onboarding and engagement resources

Goals

  • Ease the administrative burden on community preceptors by standardizing documentation

  • Engage community preceptors

  • Encourage and reward teaching

  • Enhance the quality of training at ambulatory sites

Standardized onboarding and engagement materials will include

  • A faculty appointment onboarding process where administrative personnel at the institution assist new preceptors in developing and formatting CVs during a phone interview

  • Participation in the ABFM Precepting Performance Improvement Program, using:

    • An online self-assessment of developmental competencies for preceptors

    • TeachingPhysician.org assigned readings, based on self-assessment

  • An online course on giving feedback

  • A new preceptor recognition program

  • A new teaching practice recognition program

Project 3: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot student onboarding resources and processes outlined in Project 1 and will pilot standardized preceptor onboarding and engagement resources outlined in Project 2

Five family medicine departments for each of the 3 projects were selected through a competitive application process. Preference was given to departments collaborating with 2 or more other specialties/departments/professions. Over the next 2 years, departments and their collaborators will participate in online and in-person learning communities to share/learn about intervention approaches; conduct standardized pre/post measurement; and disseminate their findings.

The pilot is being led by tactic team leader Jim Ballard, PhD and project manager Melissa Abuel. Evaluation will be managed by the Robert Graham Center, which will measure the impact of the interventions on preceptors’ administrative burden, and the learning experience for students.

  • © 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

The Annals of Family Medicine: 17 (1)
The Annals of Family Medicine: 17 (1)
Vol. 17, Issue 1
January/February 2019
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
  • Back Matter (PDF)
  • Front Matter (PDF)
  • In Brief
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Annals of Family Medicine.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
BUILDING BETTER CLINICAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES: A LEARNING COLLABORATIVE
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Annals of Family Medicine
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Annals of Family Medicine web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
7 + 3 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
BUILDING BETTER CLINICAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES: A LEARNING COLLABORATIVE
Mary Theobald
The Annals of Family Medicine Jan 2019, 17 (1) 87-88; DOI: 10.1370/afm.2344

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Get Permissions
Share
BUILDING BETTER CLINICAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES: A LEARNING COLLABORATIVE
Mary Theobald
The Annals of Family Medicine Jan 2019, 17 (1) 87-88; DOI: 10.1370/afm.2344
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Project 1: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot student onboarding resources and processes
    • Project 2: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot standardized preceptor onboarding and engagement resources
    • Project 3: Family medicine departments, ideally in collaboration with other specialties and professions, will pilot student onboarding resources and processes outlined in Project 1 and will pilot standardized preceptor onboarding and engagement resources outlined in Project 2
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

Departments

  • What do Primary Care Patients Want?
  • Support for the WHO Resolution on Social Participation
  • STFM Announces New Point of Care Ultrasound Task Force and Initiative on POCUS Family Medicine Education
Show more Departments

Family Medicine Updates

  • What do Primary Care Patients Want?
  • Support for the WHO Resolution on Social Participation
  • STFM Announces New Point of Care Ultrasound Task Force and Initiative on POCUS Family Medicine Education
Show more Family Medicine Updates

Similar Articles

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Early Access
  • Plain-Language Summaries
  • Multimedia
  • Podcast
  • Articles by Type
  • Articles by Subject
  • Supplements
  • Calls for Papers

Info for

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Job Seekers
  • Media

Engage

  • E-mail Alerts
  • e-Letters (Comments)
  • RSS
  • Journal Club
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Subscribe
  • Family Medicine Careers

About

  • About Us
  • Editorial Board & Staff
  • Sponsoring Organizations
  • Copyrights & Permissions
  • Contact Us
  • eLetter/Comments Policy

© 2025 Annals of Family Medicine