To Teach or Not to Teach: Incentives and Barriers Impacting Clinical Preceptorship in Family Medicine

Our results indicate that family physicians largely balance intrinsic motivators against extrinsic barriers when deciding whether to clinically precept medical students. While a longitudinal integrated clerkship model can amplify the impact of these intrinsic motivators, addressing the preceptor shortage may require focus on the motivators that preceptors report as most meaningful and minimizing the impact of the time burden of teaching.