Whether you're a new or experienced preceptor, find resources and tools to help build your communication, teaching, and leadership skills to work more effectively with students.
Free sources for anyone
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- ASHP Mentoring and Preceptor Development This Resource Center includes education and links to CE opportunities available for ASHP members.
- Nexus Interprofessional Toolkit You must make a free user account to access the toolkit for precepting in an interprofessional environment. Once you have an account, click on the text at the top of each box for a list of modules. No CE credits are available.
- CPE for Preceptors (Univ. Texas at Austin) Some free and some payment-required. Online ACPE-accredited CE for preceptors. The courses were designed for UT preceptors but cover topics of relevance to all preceptors, including integrating students in patient care, developing a performance improvement plan, and naloxone use.
Sources that require payment
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- APhA Advanced Preceptor Training This 13-hour CE program consists of 13 modules focused on communication, teaching skills, evaluation skills, and general preceptor requirements. $129 for members; $349 for non-members.
- Preceptor Mini-Series, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Includes 5 units: 1: Preceptor Pharm Tools 2: Adventures in IPE Precepting 3: A Resident Preceptor’s Experience 4: A Glimpse Into the Life of a Community Pharmacy Preceptor 5: A Change of Heart: An IPE Mini-Series The series is free for those who serve as preceptors in the state of Texas. All other preceptors must pay $30 for the series. Group licenses are available.
- Collaborative Education Institute This online provider of pharmacy-specific CE has frequently-changing offerings, but always has several CEs focusing on precepting skills. At least 2 modules are always free (rotates monthly); $5-$20 for other modules.
- ASHP Preceptor Toolkit For ASHP members only. Links to foundational guidelines, checklists, and handbooks published for preceptors. More useful for APPE supervision.
Free sources for USC preceptors
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- APhA's PharmacyLibrary Preceptor Central Preceptor Central includes 21 modules, for both IPPEs and APPEs: Getting Started as a Preceptor, Working Effectively with Student Pharmacists, Building Clinical Confidence, and Cultivating Interprofessional Education. Viewing is free; to obtain CE, must pay or be APhA member.
General precepting help
Preceptor's Handbook for Pharmacists (4th ed)Publication Date: 2019-12-31
Preceptor's Handbook for Pharmacists (3rd ed)Publication Date: 2015
Getting Started As a Pharmacy Preceptor by Publication Date: 2011
Letters from Pharmacy PreceptorsPublication Date: 2020
