TY  - JOUR
DO  - 10.22454/PRiMER.2024.453046
VL  - 8
DA  - 2024/01/11
N2  - Background and Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the shortage of clinical training opportunities for health professions learners. During the pandemic, additional barriers to precepting health professions learners emerged. Understanding preceptors’ perceptions of barriers is a first step to providing learners with the best clinical learning opportunities.
Methods: In February 2021, the Emory Primary Care Consortium surveyed primary care providers eligible to precept health professions learners to determine their current precepting status and associated barriers encountered during and since COVID-19.
Results: A total of 61 physicians and 11 nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs) completed the survey. Of the 41 current preceptors, 29 precepted only MD students, 2 MD and PA students, 7 NP students only, and 3 PA students only. Of the 31 respondents who were not precepting, most (21) had precepted before March 2020 and not since. Pandemic-related precepting challenges included low patient volume (12), lack of comfort teaching in a telehealth setting (7), increased external pressure (eg, children at home; 8), and other reasons (12). Overall, 20 respondents were interested in training on incorporating students into the telehealth clinical workflow and 13 in training on teaching and providing feedback remotely.
Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic placed additional burdens on preceptors in primary care. Preceptors could benefit from training on incorporating students into telehealth visits. Increased understanding of preceptor needs could lead to new resource offerings and improved future medical education.
PB  - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
AU  - Lund, Maha B.
AU  - Green, Sonya
AU  - Leppke, Allison
AU  - Vohra-Khullar, Pamela
AU  - Alfonso, Susana
AU  - Moore, Miranda A.
L2  - http://journals.stfm.org/primer/2024/moore-2023-0018
L1  - http://journals.stfm.org/media/bhknt2i4/primer-8-2.pdf
TI  - Identifying Barriers to Precepting Health Professions Learners During the COVID-19 Pandemic
ER  -