TY - JOUR
T1 - Applying practical preventive skills in a preclinical preceptorship
AU - Nieman, Linda Z.
AU - Foxhall, Lewis E.
AU - Groff, Janet
AU - Cheng, Lee
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Learning primary care medicine includes learning to apply practical, preventive medicine skills during everyday encounters with patients. The authors relate their experiences with implementing a voluntary, preventive diabetic foot-care program within the Texas Statewide Family Practice Preceptorship Program (TSFPPP). They explain the background of the TSFPPP and their rationale for introducing prevention and selecting diabetic foot care as a first preventive training module. The program's structure, educational materials, and evaluations are described. Of the 158 students and 88 preceptors who were exposed to the program, the authors received evaluations from 86 preceptors and 110 students. Students documented that they had screened and provided foot-care education to 321 diabetic patients. On average, students saved their preceptors 5-10 minutes each time they examined a diabetic patient's feet or provided foot-care education. The students said that the wide variety of preceptors' practices, the time constraints placed upon the preceptors, and the preceptors' own guidelines for the voluntary preceptorship all posed challenges to completing the preventive activities. The preceptors reported that preclinical students could play an important preventive role in their practices; however, to get optimum results from a preventive module, it may be important for students and preceptors to determine which topics are introduced. Using the preceptor's suggestions, the authors are developing a smoking-cessation module.
AB - Learning primary care medicine includes learning to apply practical, preventive medicine skills during everyday encounters with patients. The authors relate their experiences with implementing a voluntary, preventive diabetic foot-care program within the Texas Statewide Family Practice Preceptorship Program (TSFPPP). They explain the background of the TSFPPP and their rationale for introducing prevention and selecting diabetic foot care as a first preventive training module. The program's structure, educational materials, and evaluations are described. Of the 158 students and 88 preceptors who were exposed to the program, the authors received evaluations from 86 preceptors and 110 students. Students documented that they had screened and provided foot-care education to 321 diabetic patients. On average, students saved their preceptors 5-10 minutes each time they examined a diabetic patient's feet or provided foot-care education. The students said that the wide variety of preceptors' practices, the time constraints placed upon the preceptors, and the preceptors' own guidelines for the voluntary preceptorship all posed challenges to completing the preventive activities. The preceptors reported that preclinical students could play an important preventive role in their practices; however, to get optimum results from a preventive module, it may be important for students and preceptors to determine which topics are introduced. Using the preceptor's suggestions, the authors are developing a smoking-cessation module.
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U2 - 10.1097/00001888-200105000-00022
DO - 10.1097/00001888-200105000-00022
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11346528
AN - SCOPUS:0035005014
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 76
SP - 478
EP - 483
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 5
ER -