What's the difference between preceptor and principal?

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.

Principal


Definition:

  • (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
  • (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
  • (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
  • (n.) A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
  • (n.) One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
  • (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
  • (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
  • (n.) The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
  • (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
  • (n.) A heirloom; a mortuary.
  • (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
  • (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
  • (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (3) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
  • (4) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
  • (5) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
  • (6) The binding parameters indicate that the principal activating effect of UMP is not simply to increase the affinity of the enzyme for glucose.
  • (7) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
  • (8) In the terminal segment of the hamster epididymidis there was some evidence of micro-merocrine protein secretion a the level of the principal cells and clear evidence of granular secretion in the light cells, presumable of glycoproteins.
  • (9) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
  • (10) However, at Period B, neutrophil numbers in the BAL fluid were increased in the principal but not in the control animals.
  • (11) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
  • (12) The concentrations of the principal extratesticular androgens and estradiol do not seem to have a quantitative influence on these androphilic proteins either.
  • (13) A principal function of GPIb is its attachment to von Willebrand Factor (vWF) on injured blood vessels which leads to the adhesion of platelets to these vessels.
  • (14) The principal variables influencing a particular configuration and their effects are indicated.
  • (15) The principal form of HMTs produced by these human peripheral blood monocytes has been subjected to biochemical, functional, and serological characterization.
  • (16) Micronutrient antioxidants such as alpha-tocopherol, the principal lipid-soluble antioxidant, assume potential significance because levels can be manipulated by dietary measures without resulting in side effects.
  • (17) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
  • (18) 3. an up-to-date review of the principal methods and systems used to measure the sedimentation rate--Automation of the Westergren initial methodology.
  • (19) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (20) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.

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