Faculty and preceptor information
Find APE evaluation forms and details to become a preceptor to host a student for their applied practice experience.
Preceptor Evaluation
- 2024-2025 APE Preceptor Evaluation - Preceptors should use this form to evaluate the student who completed an Applied Practice Experience with their organization.
Faculty
- Log into CARMEN/CANVAS and review your student's final report, work products, student and preceptor evaluations.
- Complete the 2024-2025 Rubric for Evaluating the Applied Practice Experience.
- When all documents have been received and reviewed, the final grade will get posted.
- Students who will not complete the applied practice experience by the deadline should notify their faculty advisor, preceptor and the faculty coordinator for the Applied Practice Experience, Clinical Associate Professor Amie Hufton. Students will receive an incomplete and will have until the following semester to finish the requirements.
Become a Preceptor
As a preceptor, you become an important part of a student’s professional development in public health. To become a preceptor, and host a student for the applied practice experience, please review the information below.
- Become familiar with the MPH program and its degree requirements.
- Review the MPH competencies.
- Identify a project or opportunity at your organization that allows the student to address MPH competencies. As a requirement, students must address five total competencies. Three of them must be foundational competencies.
- Allow students and assist the student with creating two work products that are of use to the organization. Learn more about the required work products.
- Students must complete a total of 120 hours working on tasks related to the APE.
- Preceptors will be required to complete an evaluation at the conclusion of the experience.
- Preceptors can submit an opportunity for the APE. The opportunity will be reviewed and once approved will be posted for students to review.
Preceptor Requirements
- MPH degree is encouraged but not required.
- Develop meaningful experiences and projects for students that tie into the public health curriculum and competencies.
- Assist students with developing meaningful work products that address competencies and is useful to your organization.
- Mentor, coach and supervise students.
- Encourage and nurture the students through challenging situations.
- Nurture creative and independent thinking.
- Provide constructive feedback and address areas of improvement.
- Integrate the student into the organization through meetings, conferences and networking events.
- Connect the student to others in the organization.
- Revisit learning objectives and competencies and discuss what the student has learned.
- Listen carefully and be sensitive to the student's needs.