Preceptor Development Program (PDP)

Faculty Developer Discussions and Hints: Suggestions and Sources for Program Developers

• Obtaining CME for materials.
  John Langlois, MD, MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Faculty
  One of the larger tasks in providing faculty development on-line is providing CME Credit. There are numerous obstacles and also numerous strategies. An excellent source is a JAMA article that reviews the issues and gives links help find CME on line and strategies on how to provide it. Full text of the article can be found on the JAMA Website (http://www.ama-assn.org/jama) Citation: Tools for Change: CME on the Internet, Sikorski R, Peters R, JAMA, September 16, 1998 - Vol 280, No. 11, pp. 1013-4.
  Where to get “training for developers”. If you are interested in becoming an expert developer, there are several excellent places to receive such training.
  If you have you been to a course recently or are putting on a course? Please let us know. Submit your commits in Dr. PDP.
• Places for advanced training:
  1. University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine has several graduate programs to provide health professions faculty a comprehensive, in-depth educational approach to teaching, learning and evaluation in the health professions. See http://www.usc.edu/hsc/medicine/med-ed/program.html for more information.
  2. The University of Massachusetts has been one of the leaders in Preceptor Development with their “Primary Care Future Project”. The project contains a series of very interactive seminars with role-plays and a handbook to teach you how to use them. This is a very useful source of Preceptor Development Materials and a description of the results was published in Academic Medicine (June 1998). An abstract is available: http://www.aamc.org/findinfo/aamcpubs/acadmed/jun1998/quirk.htm
  3. The UMass Community Faculty Development Center is an interdisciplinary group supported by the departments of Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, the Office of Medical Education and the Office of Community Programs. It is dedicated to providing education and conducting research development of community-based preceptors. The Center conducts workshops and provides consultations on a local, regional and national level. http://www.umassmed.edu/cfdc/
  4. Many of you will be familiar with the PEP or Preceptor Education Project published by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in 1992. They have released PEP 2, which is expanded and improved. You can get some more info at their Web-site: http://www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/fammed/pep2.html
• Surveying and Tracking Needs
  Often there is a large population of preceptors to keep track of. As a part of the project, we have developed and utilized a needs assessment tool for preceptors. This is linked to a computer database which allows one to track the individual needs of preceptors and what preceptor development they have received. Contact us for more information at PDP@mahec.net.

Discussions and Hints