Article in Rural and Remote Medicine, the International Electronic Journal of Rural Health outlines the benefits of preceptorships and a break even point at 4 months for students, with increasing value beyond this point. It outlines the need for more global measures of the interventions such as preceptorships rather than simple measures of preceptor time.
Rural Training in Family Medicine highlights the value of rural training at the graduate level
Regarding Quality of RPAP preceptorship; I agree. When I was in
Wisconsin, I had the opportunity to work with a number of residents who had been
(Minnesota) RPAP students. As a rule, they were outstanding residents. They had
far more patient care experience than their colleagues, understood FP, and
wanted to be real old-fashioned full service docs. It always seemed to me to be
a model worth emulating.
Mark
Mark A. Knox, MD
Associate Director
UPMC Shadyside Family Practice Residency
Pittsburgh, PA
Same regarding the RMED Syracuse resident I got to know - RCB