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This guide was developed to assist field preceptors in working effectively with the students and with our program expectations. The expectations and responsibilities set forth below will help maximize the student's summer experience and contribution to the preceptor's organization.
Getting started:
1. Provide orientation and overview to the organization: Mission and
purpose; history, structure and organizational chart; sources of funding, major
programs, services provided; relationships between preceptor organization and
other community organizations.
2. Provide necessary office space
and support to carry out assigned tasks.
3. Review policies and procedures with which the intern is expected to comply.
4. Planning assignments and projects
a. Develop a work schedule based on mutually agreed upon objectives for the field experience
b. Provide a project of sufficient complexity for the student to complete the written consulting paper during the fall term
c. Provide a project for which the student can carve out ownership of the process and outcome
5. Assign tasks that not only meet the organization’s needs but the student’s personal and professional growth as well.
Your Role as Preceptor:
6. Be accessible
to the student through a commitment to meeting with the student on a regular
weekly basis to discuss and critique the student's work and progress.
7. Introduce the student to organizational personnel and professional staff
as well as community-based individuals with whom the student will be working.
8. Provide opportunities for the student to be exposed to a variety of organizational
departments through attendance at management meetings, staff meetings, program
planning and coordination meetings with professionals and/or community representatives.
9. Encourage student to work independently while providing opportunities for
gathering and sharing information.
10. Facilitate and sign the student's consulting project proposal.
11. Become involved with and foster the student’s learning experience.
12. Complete the pre-internship competency assessment and discuss it with
the student.
13. Attend, if possible, the student's oral presentation in class during the
fall term.
14. Upon receiving a copy of the student's applied field studies project report,
complete a final evaluation and competency assessment of
the student covering the internship process, the final oral presentation and
the final written consulting report.
Specific Tasks to Facilitate
Leadership Development:
15. Organize, conduct and develop minutes for meetings of the student’s
work group.
16. Orally present his or her final work product to the management team.
Contact Program Director Diana Hilberman, DrPH at hilberma@ucla.edu or (310) 206-6322 if problems arise with the project or the student. Site visits and telephone consults are available to facilitate problem resolution.
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