An evaluation of primary care preceptorships

Participants and nonparticipants in a primary care preceptorship experience were compared on self-reported competencies in basic skills and performance of clinical procedures. A pre--post analysis of participating students was done, documenting the effect of the preceptorship experience on the students' career choices, practice site selections, and competencies in basic skills and in performance of clinical procedures. The experience tended to give precepting students more than nonprecepting students a feeling of confidence in skill areas and in performance of clinical procedures.