Benefits of Preceptors

For you, your clients and your profession

For the Preceptor

• Helps you stay current with knowledge and best practice.
• Connects you to the next generation of clinicians.
• Contributes to the profession and teaching.
• Allows you to develop leadership skills.
• Engergizes you in your own work.
• Counts as Continuing Education Credits in most professions.
• Connects you with the student's university program, including clinical educators' benefits.

For the Client/Patient

• Encourages in-depth observation and discussion of each client/patient.
• Provides another communication partner.
• Creates a group dynamic.
• Provices a second person who may have more time to individualize materials.
• May increase the number of treatment sessions to the client/patient.

For the Profession

• Supports future professionals.
• Exposes clinicians to new knowledge and clinical ideas.
• Provides the foundation for students to become future clinical educators.
• Facilitates recruitment.

For the Employer

• Facilitates recruitment.
• Contributes to employees' supervision and leadership skills.
• Opportunity for employees to obtain continuing education credits (at no cost to the employer).
  
• Exposes employees to new knowledge and practices.
  
• May result in the capacity to alter or expand services for patients/clients.