Preceptor Development Program (PDP)
Faculty Developer Discussions and Hints: Other Ways to Use the PDP Materials
If you’ve had a chance to use the Preceptor Development Program
materials, you probably made some adaptations to make them work best for
your situation. What has your experience been? Which part has been most
useful? Please share in Talk Back with Dr. PDP.
Here are some ways others have adapted the materials.
- Robyn Latessa, MD, MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program Faculty
Recently, Norma Beaty and I at the MAHEC Program in Asheville
presented an interactive, innovative one-hour session for our
preceptors. The program contained material from four of the PDP
modules in a computerized game similar to Jeopardy. We have now used
this three times and each time, preceptors enjoyed the format to share
their strategies and tips of working with students. See my web site at
www.mahec.net/fm/stumpers to
download this board and instructions for its use. Please contact me if
you have any questions or comments at robyn.latessa@mahec.net
- Robert Wolfe, MD
I'd like to suggest a very useful program that would make it much
easier to create the monograph booklets. The program is called
FinePrint 2000. It costs $40, and can be purchased and downloaded over
the web. It will allow the user to print out a multi-page document in
booklet form on legal size paper, which can then be stapled using a
special stapler. I've already formatted 4 or 5 of the MAHEC monographs
and have been printing them this way. Once you have one "
master" copy, you can run off the rest on a Xerox machine. I
think FinePrint is an excellent value. You can look at the home page
at http://www.fineprint.com.
- John Langlois, MD, MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Faculty
We decided to make a "tool box" with copies of all of the
monographs, thumbnails, and a video or two. With this we can be ready
to meet the preceptor's immediate request and catch the teachable
moment. I tried it out last week when I was visiting a practice that
will be taking their first clerkship students. I used the Setting
Expectations Thumbnail to reinforce the importance of getting off to a
good start. When they saw our list of resources on the back, four
doctors asked for the One Minute Preceptor monograph. Later, when we
were talking about how to manage the learner in the busy office, I
broke out the monograph, and everyone wanted copies of that too!
Having the materials handy worked out better than I could have
planned and I think the likelihood of them completing the monographs
for CME credit is high.