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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 54. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr.

Patel. And we have a special guest with us today, someone who's been on the podcasthost, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And we have a special guest with

us today, someone who's been on the podcast before, Dr. Cannon, the Director of Experiential

Education here at Rosam Franklin University. Great to be with you all again. Thank you.

And we brought you in here today because we thought it would be nice to talk about preceptor development and how to be a good preceptor. So the title of today's episode is So You Think You Can Precept Advice from the Frontlines.

Yeah, I think, Sean, we've gotten to a point now where we're all looking for ways to help

preceptors do the things they want to do.

With students, we know that most preceptors want to give back,

want to be the best they can. And every time I've done some type of preceptor development

program where we've had a large group of people, even a small group, it has always struck

me that the expertise in the room is far beyond anything that I could bring to the table.

So it's really trying to carve out some time and just talk about the things that you face

and the things that you do because the one thing we don't get a lot of time to do is talk about our approaches to teaching.

So I thought, you know, I've got three experts in the room now, why not pick their brain and share with a larger audience, if possible?

Just to kind of piggyback on that, if you think about it, within the pharmacy education and curriculum,

typically you're not given a class on how to be a good preceptor.

You know, within residency programs, oftentimes you'll have a teaching certificate type program, which is great,

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