MAFP is assisting the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) in gathering insight from Family Physicians about their perceptions of and experiences with precepting.

There is widespread agreement that there are not nearly enough primary care preceptors in Michigan or across the country to provide students hands-on opportunities with patients in real-world settings. In 2016, STFM hosted a summit—supported, in part, by a grant from the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation—to identify why Family Physicians precept, challenges to precepting, and ideas for how to overcome those challenges. Armed with knowledge from the summit, STFM established a Preceptor Expansion Action Plan consisting of specific tactics to address the challenges. STFM is now gathering information to further the work of those tactics with the goal of changing the culture of precepting in practices and health systems.

This survey will remain open until Monday, March 5 at 5 pm. Thank you for sharing your insight! 

If you have any questions, please contact Dana Lawrence, MAFP Director of Communications, at dlawrence@mafp.com.

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* 1. Do you work in a physician-owned or a system-owned practice?

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* 2. Do you have a practice-wide policy about whether you can or cannot teach students in your practice?

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* 3. When schools want you to precept, do they approach you directly or do they go through someone else in your practice/system?

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* 4. Who, ultimately, gets to decide if you, personally, will precept?

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* 5. Putting aside any extra time required to teach, what is the biggest administrative hassle of precepting and what could be done to alleviate that?

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* 6. Who (role in your practice) decides what HIPAA forms, security clearances, training, agreements, etc. need to be completed before a student comes to your office?

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* 7. What do you wish students would know or could do “day 1” in your office?

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* 8. How do you “onboard” students?

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* 9. How are your productivity standards or requirements set?

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* 10. To what extent do productivity standards/requirements impact your ability/desire to work with a student?

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* 11. Do productivity/standards factor in teaching time?

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* 12. Do you have ideas for how we could get decision makers to factor in teaching time?

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* 13. Do you precept students from more than one school or profession?

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* 14. What would get you to consider precepting a team, rather than an individual student?

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* 15. Do you have input into the scheduling of students, in terms of for how long or how often they come to your office?

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* 16. How would you prefer to receive information or training regarding curriculum or teaching practices from the schools sending students?

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* 17. Do students receive their own access to the electronic health record?

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* 18. How much does payment by the medical school factor into the decision about whether or not physicians in your practice precept?

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* 19. STFM is looking at creating a national recognition program for preceptors who provide quality teaching. What are your thoughts on that?

Thank you for sharing your insight!

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