Preceptors

Your knowledge and experience can help our students - the providers of tomorrow - learn to deliver the compassionate and skillful care patients deserve. Our dedicated staff members coordinate student paperwork, make advanced scheduling requests, and verify student immunizations to help make precepting a seamless experience. The most common reason for choosing to precept is to give back to the medical profession, and it keeps providers current with resources and medical knowledge.

The University of Iowa PA Program acknowledges outstanding contribution made by preceptors each year by awarding the Preceptor of the Year Award. Senior students have the opportunity to nominate preceptors they have worked with during their clinical year. The following information recognizes the preceptors who were nominated and received the award.

PLACE HOLDER FOR UPDATED CHART

Benefits of Working with Iowa

  • High caliber of physician assistant students
  • Discounted continuing medical education credits
  • Annual certificate of recognition
  • Invitation to our annual career fair
  • Academic appointment as an adjunct faculty member with a continued commitment
  • Access to UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences resources, medical library, and UpToDate software for preceptors with an adjunct faculty appointment

Continuing Medical Education

  • PAs are eligible for AAPA Category I CME credits
  • MDs, DOs and NPs are eligible for Category II CME credits

Personal Development

  • Ability to develop teaching skills
  • Opportunity to pay it forward
  • Connect with the UI Carver College of Medicine community
  • Receive assistance with specific teaching materials and concepts

Professional Development

  • Include teaching experiences as part of annual review, CV, and teaching credits
  • Increase awareness of current medical literature
  • Increase time spent on patient education and review of clinical medicine
  • Site recruitment tool for new employees
  • CMS improvement activity credits for MIPS-eligible clinicians acting as a preceptor
  • CMS allows students to assist with documentation, saving administrative clinic time

If you are interested in precepting for our program, please contact our Coordinator of Clinical Outreach and Development at paprogram@uiowa.edu

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