SUGGESTED COMPETENCES FOR A PRECEPTOR TRAINING PROGRAMME

Respiratory care clinical education: a needs assessment for preceptor training.

BACKGROUND There has been a growing interest in the use of volunteer clinical preceptors to provide clinical instruction to respiratory therapy (RT) students. However, many RT preceptors have had little or no training in preceptorship. We sought to identify the preceptor training needs of programs that lead to the Registered Respiratory Therapist or Certified Respiratory Therapist credential (R...

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The Education and Training of Learning Technologists: A Competences Approach

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Wikipedia as Training Resource for Developing Digital Competences

It seems improbable that Wikipedia could be considered a valid resource for educational institutions like schools and universities because of the risk of incurring mistakes, inaccuracies, and plagiarism. The bad reputation of the free encyclopedia is false, Wikipedia is reliable and can be used in the curriculum as a new approach for social and collaborative construction of knowledge. It can en...

Preceptor preferences for participating in electronic preceptor development

OBJECTIVES New guidelines require preceptors to deliver approximately 30% of the doctor of pharmacy curricula. With preceptor's increasing responsibilities, colleges are faced with the task of training preceptors as educators. Identifying preceptor's training format preferences (i.e. electronic vs. live) should contribute to the more effective and efficient creation of training materials and pr...