A busy clinical shift may not look much like a classroom. There are patients to assess, medications to prepare, documentation to complete, families asking questions, and unexpected problems appearing throughout the day. For preceptors, adding formal teaching sessions to that workload can feel nearly impossible. But clinical education does not have to happen separately from … Read more
You have three patients waiting, documentation to finish, a colleague asking a question, and a learner standing beside you hoping to understand why you just made a clinical decision. Welcome to clinical teaching. One of the biggest challenges for preceptors is that teaching rarely happens in a quiet classroom. It happens during medication rounds, patient … Read more
Clinical teaching rarely happens in a perfectly quiet classroom. It happens while patients need attention, phones are ringing, documentation is waiting, and healthcare professionals are juggling several priorities at once. That can make teaching feel like something educators have to squeeze into whatever time remains. But effective teaching during clinical practice does not require turning … Read more