The Community Preceptor Crisis: Recruiting and Retaining Community-Based Faculty to Teach Medical Students—A Shared Perspective From the Alliance for Clinical Education

摘要: ABSTRACTIssue: Community-based instruction is invaluable to medical students, as it provides “real-world” opportunities for observing and following patients over time while refining history taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis, patient management skills. ambulatory settings can be more conducive practicing these skills than highly specialized, academically based practice sites. The Association of American Medical Colleges other national education organizations have expressed concern about recruitment retention preceptors provide high-quality educational experiences in community-based These concerns stem from constraints imposed by documentation electronic health records; perceptions that student mentoring burdensome resulting decreased clinical productivity; competition between allopathic, osteopathic, international schools finite resources experiences. Evidence: In this Alliance f...