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
(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 Talk Back with
Dr. PDP.
- Places for advanced training:
- 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.
- 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
- 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/
- 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.