Improving medical students' competencies: using longitudinal ambulatory setting preceptorship

A preceptorship is an optional experience in which an experienced physician gives a personal guide and supervision to medical students during the first or second year of medical school. Preceptorships offer the preclinical medical student good opportunity to track a patient over time and to experience a real clinical setting. The results of previous articles about preceptorship showed that the students report that this method can be an effective way of preparing them for clinical training and motivation for studying basic sciences. Besides it provides a unique opportunity to see the patients in follow up visits. (Tan 2011, Willoughby 2016).