Clerkship Onboarding Implementation Guide

Join departments, specialties, and health professions across the country in standardizing the onboarding of students and reducing administrative burdens for community preceptors. 

Goals: 

• Ease the administrative burden on community faculty (preceptors) at ambulatory clinical sites by standardizing documentation
• Help preceptors integrate students more easily into the practice
• Increase student value to practices
• Aid teaching programs in administering clinical clerkship (rotation) experiences

Your students can: 

• Get practical tips on "How to Be Awesome in an Ambulatory Clinical Rotation"
• Complete online modules on:
  • "How to Write a High-Quality Note in the Electronic Medical Record"
  • "How to Perform Medication Reconciliation"
  • "Motivational Interviewing: a Structured Approach to Behavior Change”
• Fill out a student passport that provides preceptors with basic information about the student's training and objectives for the current rotation. Clerkship coordinators submit the passport, along with a Readiness for Clinical Work letter, to clerkship sites to streamline the onboarding process and ensure that students are ready to learn and contribute when they begin their clerkship.