Preparing for your Clinical Student

Preceptors are often busy clinicians without formal precepting training. This course aims to address the gaps that exist in preparing for the student that will be precepted. This course provides the information need to successfully prepare for your new clinical student.

Target Audience

This course is designed for Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, and Physician Assistants

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Orienting and Preparing for an APP Student

  • Review some examples of options for an orientation presentation and their pros/cons
  • Describe common student requirements prior to rotation start
  • Review the important elements of orientation and student onboarding
  • Review ideas on preparing the clinical environment for an APP student
  • Review ideas on preparing your leadership, direct/indirect clinical team, and patients for an APP student
  • Develop your Day One Orientation Checklist

Introducing your Patients to the Clinical Learner 

  • Define who from the medical team will provide notification to patients regarding students
  • Compare and contrast between inpatient and outpatient settings on how patients are educated on student participation
  • Develop a plan for what the student will and will not do as part of the patient encounter
  • Incorporate patients into the student's learning experience
  • Explore potential barriers to student participation in patient care
     
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
06/28/2023
Course expires: 
07/17/2026

Planning Committee:

  • Paul Phrampus, MD, FACEP - Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh; Director, Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER); Medical Director Patient Safety, UPMC Health System
  • Julie Dubis, MPAS, PA-C - Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Alexandrea Bartow, MBA, MSN, ACNP-BC, RN, CSSGB - Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Lecturer:  Alexa Llewellyn, PA-C  - Occupational-Environmental Medicine, UPMC

Course Directors:

  • Hayden Mulligan, MS, PA-C - Assistant Professor and Clinical Faculty Member, University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Julie Dubis, MPAS, PA-C - Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Amy Haller, MPAS, PA-C, MBA - Co-Director of the Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Certificate Course and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistant (AAPA)

The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. 

Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
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