Going Provincial: Preceptoring and Mentoring Revisited in the Health Sciences. Part II

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Part I of this two part series, which was published in the Spring 2003 issue of Healthcare Management FORUM, described the Preceptor & Mentor Initiative for Health Sciences in BC, a provincial strategy to facilitate preceptoring and mentoring. Activities included creation of an educational web site and a UBC Continuing Studies preceptor course, and provincial workshops on preceptoring and mentoring. The purpose of this second article is to outline the philosophy, framework, results and interpretation of the Preceptor & Mentor Initiative's evaluation component.

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Grembowski

. The Practice of Health Program Evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2001.

References of studies linking aspects of preceptoring and mentoring with outcomes are available on the Preceptor & Mentor Initiative web page at: http://www.couth.bc.ca/managingprograms/evaluating/howto.htm

HSPnet (Health Services Placement Network of BC) is a province-wide web-enabled database for coordinating and improving student placements for all professions in BC. Visit the project's web site at: http://www.hspbc.net

Going Provincial: Preceptoring and Mentoring Revisited in the Health Sciences. Part II — The Evaluation

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