Our volunteer preceptors are exemplary community physicians with a strong interest in introducing students to the joys and challenges of providing care to rural and urban-underserved populations.
Busy physicians recognize that their clinic time can be hectic, but every year our preceptors comment on the enjoyment clinical teaching brings. Young, enthusiastic learners challenge them to be at their best. Patients enjoy interacting with the students and seeing their physician in a teaching role. Preceptors find shaping and influencing young physicians-in-training quite rewarding. We find them quite extraordinary!

Clinical Faculty Appointments for Preceptors

One way preceptors are officially recognized for their time and effort in teaching medical students is through clinical faculty appointments. Level of appointments vary from Clinical Instructor to Clinical Professor. Application for appointments can be made at any time. Requirements include a minimum of 50 precepting hours, letters of recommendations and evaluations from students. We require all physicians precepting on a regular basis with the R/UOP program to have or be in the process of obtaining, an appointment as "Clinical Instructor in Family Medicine." Clinical Faculty status also includes access to the University of Washington Health Sciences Library. Follow the link below for additional information:

About Clinical Faculty appointment.

The RUOP Preceptor Manual 2008 provides program goals, answers to common questions, and information about precepting pre-clinical medical students.