What Preceptorship actually is
When your students go into the field, somebody has to schedule the shifts, somebody has to evaluate each one, and somebody has to keep the paperwork in a state that survives an audit. Preceptorship does those three things in one place, and keeps the evaluations honest by making sure neither the student nor the preceptor can see the other's answers before they have both committed to their own.
It runs independently of classrooms. A program can use Preceptorship for field rotations without ever creating a classroom, or use both side by side.
From join code to signed report
- Create your program and share two codesYour program gets its own join code for preceptors and a separate one for students. Nobody joins without a code, and the two are distinct so a student can never land in the preceptor queue by mistake.
- Approve your preceptors yourselfField preceptors apply using your code — they cannot sign themselves up and start working. Each application waits for you to approve or reject it, so the people evaluating your students are people you have vetted.
- Assign students and set a shift targetEach student is paired with a preceptor and given the number of shifts they need to complete. Progress against that target is tracked automatically as shifts are logged — no separate spreadsheet.
- Students schedule their own shiftsStudents book their shifts, which appear on their preceptor's calendar straight away. You are not the middleman for scheduling, but you can see the whole picture at any time.
- Every shift becomes a numbered reportEach completed shift produces its own report, numbered in sequence, including a log of the individual calls that were run on it. The paperwork is a by-product of doing the work, not a separate chore.
- Both sides evaluate without seeing each otherThe student rates their own confidence and the preceptor rates the student. Neither can see the other's answers until both have signed. That is enforced by the database itself — not merely hidden on screen — so an honest self-assessment stays possible.
- Signing locks the reportSubmitting a report is the signature. It records the signer's name, role, and certification level. After that only you can reopen it, doing so requires a written reason, and the record carries a stamp that proves whether anything changed afterwards.
Why it is built this way
Preceptorship — Clinical Preceptorship
A complete system for the clinical side of your program, separate from classrooms — run either, both, or neither. Create a program with its own preceptor and preceptee join codes; field preceptors apply with the code and you approve or reject each one. Preceptees are assigned to a preceptor, carry a required-shift target tracked as they go, and schedule their own shifts, which appear on their preceptor's calendar. Every shift produces a numbered report with a log of individual calls, and the evaluations inside it are genuinely blind — neither party sees the other's ratings until both have signed. Submitting is the signature; only you can unlock a submitted report, it takes a reason, and the record carries a tamper-evident seal you can re-verify at any time. Bring your own paperwork, too: build your program's report form from eight question types, publish it as a numbered version, and every report keeps a physical copy of the version it was created under.