Key Initiatives

Preceptor Expansion Initiative

The STFM Preceptor Expansion Initiative

STFM is leading a multi-year interprofessional, interdisciplinary initiative to address the shortage of high-quality clinical training sites for students. 

Aims

  • Decrease the percentage of primary care clerkship directors who report difficulty finding clinical preceptor sites
  • Increase the percentage of students completing clerkships at high-functioning sites

Background Documents

Resources for AAFP and ACOFP Chapters

Preceptor Recognition Resources

Recognize and reward your community preceptors.

Clerkship Onboarding Resources

Prepare students for rotations and streamline and standardize the student onboarding process.  

Preceptor Onboarding Resources

Reduce administrative burden for preceptors by standardizing the onboarding process.

Faculty Development:

About the Initiative

Over the past several years, the Preceptor Expansion Initiative has celebrated many successes, including a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) change to student documentation requirements, an American Board of Family Medicine Precepting Performance Improvement Program, resources for standardized onboarding of students and preceptors, a multi-year pilot project during a pandemic, sharing of strategies on tax incentives for preceptors, and outreach to physicians through presentations and publications.

  • Precepting: How You Can Help Your State's Medical Students. AAFP Chapter Meetings. 2021-2022.
  • Tax Incentives for Precepting. Do They Work, and Are They Making A Difference? STFM Webinar. July 2021.
  • New Ideas for Tackling the Preceptor Shortage in Your State. AAFP Chapter Leadership Forum. May 2021.
  • Building Better Clinical Training Experiences: A Learning Collaborative. 2020 GFA Professional Development Conference. July 23, 2020.
  • Welcome & Update on STFM Preceptor Expansion Initiative. University of Kentucky Annual Voluntary Faculty Conference. March 7, 2020.
  • Building Better Clinical Training Experiences: A Learning Collaborative. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2020.
  • Moving From Pilot to Performance- Lessons Learned From Four Sites’ Development of the ABFM/STFM Preceptor Improvement Program. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2020.
  • Ease the Load of Precepting: Efficiently Integrating Students Into Clinical Rotations. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. January 31, 2020.
  • Recruiting and Retaining Preceptors: How to Put the Resources From the Preceptor Expansion Initiative to Use Now. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. January 31, 2020.
  • Implementation of CMS Guidelines on Student Documentation. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. January 31, 2020.
  • Win–Win: Improving Community Preceptor Clinical Teaching While Earning MOC Credit. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. January 31, 2020.
  • Community-Based Faculty: New Approaches to Valuing a Critical Resource. Learn Serve Lead: AAMC Annual Meeting. November 9, 2019
  • Easing the Load of Precepting. Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Fall Education Forum. October 10, 2019
  • Preceptor Development. Missouri Healthcare Workforce Coalition. October 4, 2019.
  • Preceptor Expansion Initiative: Recruiting and Retaining High Quality Training Sites for Medical Students. HRSA Stakeholder's Meeting. August 9, 2019
  • ABFM Preceptor Performance Improvement Program Pilot—Lessons Learned From Four UGME Institutions. STFM Annual Spring Conference. April 29, 2019.
  • The Impact of 2018 CMS Guidelines on Medical Student Documentation. STFM Annual Spring Conference. April 29, 2019.
  • Update on the Faculty Competencies Project. STFM Annual Spring Conference. April 28, 2019.
  • Medical Student Charting Restrictions Lifted—What Next? STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 2, 2019
  • To Write or Not to Write? How Involved Should Medical Students Be in Clinical Documentation? STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 2, 2019
  • EPIC Endeavors: Incorporating Use of the EHR in the Third-Year Clerkship. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 2, 2019
  • Easing the Load of Precepting: Efficiently Integrating Students into Ambulatory Training Sites. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 2, 2019
  • Promoting Effective Feedback by Clerkship Preceptors Through an ABFM/STFM Pilot Precepting Performance Improvement Activity. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • Addressing the Challenges of Preceptor Development and Recruitment. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • Rollout of the ABFM Performance Improvement Precepting Program. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • Help Preceptors Earn ABFM Performance Improvement Credit With TeachingPhysician.org. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • A Preceptor Teaching Improvement Course: A Maintenance of Certification Pilot. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • Standardized Student Assessment as Part of a Pilot ABFM Performance Improvement Project. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • The Impact of 2018 CMS Guidelines on Medical Student Documentation.  STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 1, 2019
  • A Multiorganizational Plan to Address the Shortage of High Quality Community Preceptors. 2018 NAO Biennial Conference, July 9, 2018
  • Helping to Make Students Important Members of the Team. HRSA Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages Webinar. June 6, 2018.
  • CMS Change in the Use of Medical Student Documentation. AAMC Webinar. June 6, 2018
  • Addressing the Preceptor Crisis: Implementation of the Preceptor Expansion Action Plan and How You Can Help. STFM Annual Spring Conference. May 7, 2018
  • An Update for Residency Programs from the American Board of Family Medicine. AAFP PDW/RPS. March 25, 2018.
  • ABFM Performance Improvement Precepting Program: A Pilot. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 3, 2018
  • Multiorganizational Plan to Address the Shortage of High Quality Community Preceptors. STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. February 2, 2018
  • Six Tactics to Solve the Crisis of Community Preceptor Retention & Recruitment. AAMC Annual Meeting: Learn, Serve, Lead. November 6, 2017
  • HRSA Stakeholders’ Meeting. February 22, 2017

This initiative stemmed from Family Medicine for America’s Health’s Workforce Education and Development Core Team’s task to identify, develop, and disseminate resources for community preceptors. The work is being funded by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation, and the Physician Assistant Education Association.

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Events

April 29-May 3, 2023: STFM Annual Spring Conference

May 1, 2023: The MediPalooza at the 2023 STFM Annual Spring Conference

September 11-13, 2023: STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement

Deadlines

March 15, 2023: Faculty Leads for Presentations on Destigmatizing Mental Health Treatment Applications Due

May 26, 2023: 2024 STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement Steering Committee Applications Due

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