PRECEPTOR SKILLS AND ABILITIES

To collaborate with pharmacy organizations and colleges of pharmacy on the development of standards to enhance the quality of experiential education and pharmacy residency precepting; further,

To provide tools, education, and other resources to develop and evaluate preceptor skills.

Rationale

The quality and effectiveness of the pharmacy workforce can be positively influenced by the quality of pharmacy preceptors. Growth in the number and size of colleges of pharmacy has increased demand for teaching sites and for qualified preceptors to provide experiential training and residency rotations at those sites. Although nearly all colleges of pharmacy endeavor to provide robust preceptor training, efforts to develop preceptors may be inconsistent or ineffective due to resource constraints. In addition to improved training of preceptors, the profession needs a mechanism for evaluating the skills of preceptors and educators.