Preceptor Tools

The MMA Preceptor Initiative was started to help physicians by providing tools and resources to improve the training and support for clinical preceptors.

Community Preceptor Toolbox

These resources were developed via a partnership between the MMA and University of Minnesota Medical School known as the MMA Preceptor Initiative.  

Thank you to the MMA Preceptor Initiative Advisory Group, the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Medical Educator Development and Scholarship Program (MEDS), Darin Brink, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and Jon Hallberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Additional Information & Resources

Best Practices Video

Veterans Affairs Longitudinal Undergraduate Medical Education

University of Minnesota Family Medicine Community Preceptors

Community preceptors for the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health make a significant impact on the success of medical student programming.

If you're a community physician, consider teaching for us.

Teaching Tip: One Minute Preceptor (Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators)

Teaching Tip: Feedback (Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators)

Medical Student Documentation Changes

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now explicitly allows appropriately supervised student documentation to be submitted for billing, via changes in:  

Policy transmittal, Pub 100-04 Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

Academic Medicine, Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, October 2018:

Policy Change from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provides an Opportunity to Improve Medical Student Education and Recruit Community Preceptor