Provide Constructive Feedback Immediate feedback is most effective. However, you can provide feedback at regular intervals in the teaching day. There is time to talk with students about their cases when walking back from morning rounds, going to noon conferences, or at the end of the clinic day. Other doctors will have interesting cases to show, as well. Sharing the students with other partners also helps when the primary preceptor is off.
Students can read about an interesting case if patients are backing up.
This will allow the preceptor to catch up. The nurse, business person, lab technician, and receptionist can provide insights for the student. This may not always be the best learning strategy. An article by Epstein et al details critical education experiences in which students were only observers of the clinical encounter. 1 Encounters such as these are ones that may take little extra teaching time for preceptors.