There are many personal and professional satisfactions that come with being a preceptor, including:
- professional involvement in the teaching/learning process
- validates and reinforces professional values and practice
- stimulates innovative and improved practice
- the opportunity to step back and appreciate one's own contribution to the profession
- contributions to future health care through influencing a student's practice
- the opportunity to network with other preceptors.
I think, as a preceptor, I am passing on something of value to my students. I am passing on knowledge that not all people have. Some days I take my knowledge for granted, and teaching new professionals reminds me of the value of the things I have learned from my years of experience. Being a preceptor reminds me to look at things from a different perspective and with fresh eyes.
Preceptor
School of Health and Public Safety
The position of the preceptor has offered me a daily challenge in dealing with both the students and the work; rarely is the work boring. It has also forced me to learn the work thoroughly and to continue learning all aspects of the department; the student inadvertently pushes me to do better.
Preceptor
School of Health and Public Safety
Preceptor training
SAIT's School of Health and Public Safety offers ‘PDEV 190 – Preceptor Training’, a self-paced course that takes about 24 total hours to complete, and is designed to meet the needs of novice and intermediate preceptors, or provide a refresher for those who are more experienced.
When you enroll in this course, you’ll have two years to complete it, allowing you the time and flexibility to explore the material, apply the learning in your practice as a preceptor, and attain any mandatory continuing competency requirements as a result.
Course topics
- Preceptor roles
- Adult learners
- Planning and organizing learning experiences
- Motivating students
- Precepting strategies
- Assessment techniques
- Communication strategies
- Conflict management
Professional development credits
This course is non-credit at SAIT, though you may choose to seek credit with other professional organizations as relevant.
Registration
Registration is ongoing throughout each year, and there are two ways to enroll:
- If you are actively precepting for a program in SAIT’s School of Health and Public Safety, please contact that program’s practicum liaison, who will provide you with registration information. Registration is free for those who are actively precepting for our programs.
- If you are not actively precepting for a program in SAIT’s School of Health and Public Safety, please call 403.284.SAIT to register. Registration costs $50 for those who are not actively precepting for our programs.
Contact us
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School of Health and Public Safety
Senator Burns Building, SAIT Main Campus
- hps.info@sait.ca
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Monday - Friday | 9 am - 4pm
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.