OCER/DMS Resources
- Community Preceptor Education Board
- Preceptor Welcome Packet (Useful information for new preceptors! Contact us to receive your packet)
Preceptor Support Visits
Faculty running ambulatory care courses schedule Preceptor Support Visits with preceptors and other members of the practice team to:
- Relay updates about the course and course curriculum
- Answer questions or concerns that the preceptor or office team may have
- Provide teaching tools and tips
- Ensure that teaching site's needs are met
- Meet with individuals interested in becoming preceptors
Contact Us for more information or to request a site visit
Annual Faculty Development Workshops on Teaching and Learning
Each year, OCER sponsors teaching and learning workshops for preceptors. Past sessions have included:
- Evaluation Skills
- Assessing Learner Needs
- Providing Constructive Feedback to Students
- Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Resources for the Busy Physician
Speakers' Bureau
Speakers' Bureau is a resource sponsored by the Office of Community-based Education & Research (OCER) and is available to all community-based preceptors who are organizing conferences, workshops and seminars in the area of medical education and clinical improvement practices. Each workshop is presented by Dartmouth Medical School faculty and instructors. While the workshops are free, host organizations are asked to disburse travel and lodging expenditures for the speakers.
Speakers
- Nan Cochran, M.D.
- Leslie Fall, M.D.
- Beth Harwood, M.Ed.
- Don Kollisch, M.D.
- Joel Lazar, M.D.
- Greg Ogrinc, M.D.
- Debbie Peltier, M.D.
- Cathy Pipas, M.D.
- Rebecca Pschirrer, M.D.
- Virginia Reed, Ph.D.
- Karen Schifferdecker, Ph.D.
Medical Education Skill Building
- Benefits of Having Students in clinic: honest!
- Office-based precepting -- what works, what doesn't
- Teaching in the Busy Clinic: Trying to Maintain a Semblance of Efficiency While Teaching Effectively
- Creating an effective teaching office
- Nuts and Bolts: learning from process as well as content in the outpatient clinic
- Assessing learner needs
- Use of the OSTE to train the teacher
- One minute preceptor
- Effective teaching strategies
- The difficult learner
- Teaching to the developmental level of learner
- Effective feedback strategies
- Using feedback to change behavior
- Fine art of observational skills
- Using Standardized Patients for Teaching, Learning and/or Assessment
- Writing Cases utilizing Standardized Patients
- Objective Structured Clinical Exams- Practical experience from ob/gyn
- Teaching the ear exam
- Where to go for Sex.... Information - Student Guide for Patient Education
- Focusing Students in the Outpatient Setting: Using Scripts
- Clinical Reasoning in Real Time
- PowerPoint Based Oral presentations - Practical guide
- The role of educational neuroscience in medical education
Clinical Improvement Practices
- Overview of Cultural Competency and Application in Everyday Office Setting
- Health Literacy in Primary Care Practice: What Your Practice (and learners) Can Do
- Improving clinical Microsystems
- An Overview of Practice Improvement: Designing your own project and including students
- Avoiding burnout
Please contact OCER for workshop schedule and information.
Physical Examination Movies
On Doctoring Year 1
On Doctoring Year 2
CLIPP
CLIPP, Computer-assisted Learning In Pediatrics, is a series of online cases that teach a nationally adopted Pediatrics curriculum. A product of the Institute for Innovative Technology In Medical Education (iInTIME), CLIPP is in use at 111 medical schools in the United States and Canada. Directed to third-year medical students, CLIPP is also used by nursing programs, residents and other healthcare professionals.
Preceptors use CLIPP in a number of ways: by having students prepare to meet an actual patient by completing a virtual-patient case first; providing peer-reviewed teaching when the preceptors are unavailable; and reinforcing teaching about clinical reasoning and forming differential diagnoses. CLIPP has been extensively evaluated, and there is widespread enthusiasm for the cases and their quality. Click here for an article in Academic Medicine about the development and evaluation of CLIPP. CLIPP is the recipient of the 2006 Innovation in Clinical Medical Student Education Aware from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs.
For more information, please see the CLIPP Web site or the iInTIME Web site.