Preceptor Development: How to Effectively Teach Different Level Learners in Experiential Education

University of Tennessee IPPE/APPE preceptors may have students with different levels of pharmacy education, who interact in the same location, such as IPPE and APPE students with the same preceptor during the same time-frame. Additionally, APPE students can be P3 or P4 students in March and April, which means a preceptor could be teaching a P3 and P4 during the same APPE.  Having a student on their first APPE at the same time as a student on their last APPE creates a unique environment where students have different levels of experience in practice  Preceptors have verbally requested content that helps them understand how to teach different level learners. A live session was conducted in the past, but preceptors wanted more enduring material.

 

University of Tennessee IPPE/APPE  preceptors are often also residency preceptors and often co-precept pharmacy students and residents in the same month.  Therefore, mastery of a layered learning model is important to preceptors. 

 

The purpose of this activity is to provide a combination of application-based methods preceptors can use to teach learners with different levels of knowledge and application-based scenarios for preceptors to ponder and develop approaches to improve their teaching to different level learners.