Des Moines University is supportive of healthcare providers who choose to actively participate in the education of our students by offering excellent clinical training opportunities. Preceptors not only transmit skills but are mentors who convey the core values that are important to Des Moines University: accountability, collaboration, honesty, inclusiveness, and wellness. Preceptors do what no textbook or classroom can accomplish. The students benefit from the community-based experience while preceptors benefit from integrating new ideas and techniques into their practices that are currently being taught in academic health sciences institutions. Join us for a series of educational opportunities which provide precepting pearls to aid in shaping the next generation of clinicians.

Objectives for this session:

• Define the term reliability with reference to the evaluation of student performance in the clinical setting.
• Define the term validity with reference to the evaluation of student performance in the clinical setting.
• Define the term formative evaluation.
• Define the term summative evaluation.
• Utilize strategies meant to enhance the reliability and validity of student evaluations.
• Write effective and constructive narrative comments on student evaluation forms.
• Demonstrate strategies for conducting an end-of-clerkship evaluation session.