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Benefits of Preceptors
For you, your clients and your profession
For the Preceptor
- Helps you stay current with knowledge and best practice.
- Connects you to the next generation of clinicians.
- Contributes to the profession and teaching.
- Allows you to develop leadership skills.
- Energizes you in your own work.
- Counts as Continuing Education Credits in ATRA’s CEU program (Code 115).
- Connects you with the student's university program.
For the Client/Patient
- Encourages in-depth observation and discussion of each client/patient.
- Provides another communication partner.
- Creates a group dynamic.
- Provides a second person who may have more time to individualize materials.
- May increase the number of treatment sessions to the client/patient.
For the Profession
- Supports future professionals.
- Exposes clinicians to new knowledge and clinical ideas.
- Provides the foundation for students to become future clinical educators.
- Facilitates recruitment.
For the Employer
- Facilitates recruitment.
- Contributes to employees' supervision and leadership skills.
- Opportunity for employees to obtain continuing education credits (at no cost to the employer).
- Exposes employees to new knowledge and practices.
- May result in the capacity to alter or expand services for patients/clients.
ATRA sources content from the Dalhousie University Faculty of Health.