What's the difference between mentor and preceptor?

Mentor


Definition:

  • (n.) A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
  • (2) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
  • (3) Activities include mentoring, help with employment and, increasingly, help with mental-health vulnerabilities.
  • (4) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
  • (5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
  • (8) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (9) Here are our tips for breaking out of the rut: Find a mentor Is there a female leader in your organisation you admire?
  • (10) Graham has been a mentor to Zuckerberg since they met in 2005 and joined Facebook's board in 2009, but passed on the chance to buy into the company during its early funding rounds.
  • (11) Those chairmen who had mentors were more likely to have these characteristics: (1) to have completed a subspecialty fellowship, (2) to command a larger departmental budget (greater than $4 million), (3) to have been a board examiner before appointment, and (4) to have received support in obtaining their appointment from recognized leaders in the specialty.
  • (12) It was at sixth-form college in Luton that Saungweme signed up with Career Academies UK, a charity that helps young people find work experience and mentors.
  • (13) Finally, we try to recruit and mentor likely candidates for current or future vacancies.
  • (14) She attributes her own path to university and her Modern Heritage business partly to having a strong female role model in the shape of a business mentor.
  • (15) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
  • (16) Discussing the subject of youth unemployment, David Miliband said young people in work should mentor those out of work.
  • (17) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
  • (18) The deposed leader was due to meet leftwing allies in Nicaragua today for an emergency summit likely to be dominated by Zelaya's mentor, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez .
  • (19) Documents seen by the Guardian detail a schedule for the mayor to take the axe to funds currently directed towards mentoring, volunteering, supplementary schooling, healthy eating and services for young people excluded from schools.
  • (20) Over my career I have mentored and supported a range of different women.

Preceptor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.
  • (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A teaching practice of a residency program in primary care internal medicine was used for a cross-sectional study of the record-keeping habits of ambulatory preceptors and the residents they supervise.
  • (2) All but 10 interventions were considered by preceptors to be significant contributions to patient care.
  • (3) Use of preceptors, use of multiple and single agencies, observational visits, time scheduled, projects, and faculty philosophy of CHN were examined.
  • (4) The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.
  • (5) All actors in the educational process--student, preceptors, and faculty--have the same expectations when clinical learning is clarified through the use of clinical focus guidelines.
  • (6) Opioid preceptor blockade with naloxone prevented the appearance of inhibitory action of stress and CRF on hypophyseal gonadotropic function rather than on testicular secretory activity.
  • (7) This approach has resulted in improved documentation of the preceptee's progress and greater consistency in how preceptors implement their role.
  • (8) Senior medical students are used as the patient and the preceptor to introduce the fundamentals of history taking and physical examination to sophomore medical students and this technique compared to the established method for teaching basic skills at the University of Iowa.
  • (9) Some elucidation of the functioning of the primary care physician in the role as gatekeeper to health and social services for elderly patients is provided by a survey of family practice preceptors.
  • (10) The viability and strength of this preceptor program may be attributed to the inclusion of all levels of nursing staff in its development and implementation.
  • (11) Newer methods of evaluation, for example, daily assessment by preceptors, have been described, but work continues to be needed on these and older methods, such as oral examinations.
  • (12) The system was implemented on the nursing units with preceptors serving as instructor-trainers.
  • (13) The importance of good relations between the school and the preceptors is stressed.
  • (14) The authors describe usual preceptor benefits and explore possibilities for more tangible rewards which can be cost efficient and stimulate preceptor interest and enthusiasm.
  • (15) A preceptor-supervised intervention program was beneficial to Pharm.D.
  • (16) Seven of the 22 preceptors had significant positive correlations for both criterion measures, while seven of 22 did not correlate at a significant level for either.
  • (17) Four doctor of pharmacy degree students under the direct guidance of a clinical pharmacy preceptor suggested 231 patient-care interventions during their clinical rotations; 219 (94.8%) of the interventions were either fully or partially accepted by the prescriber.
  • (18) A plea is made for general practitioners to cooperate, not only as preceptors in the apprenticeship scheme, but also to take part in the collection of basic data for research projects initiated by the sub-Department of Community Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine.
  • (19) Using the three-tiered model, clinical teaching activities are shared among preceptors, clinical instructors, and the course coordinator.
  • (20) Nurse educators need to decide if preceptor programs, complete with a well-defined selection, preparation, and reward process are in place.

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