The Institute for Patient Care

Clinical Affiliations Program

The Clinical Affiliations Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is managed by the Institute for Patient Care. The Clinical Affiliation Program exemplifies…

• Our Mission: to educate future academic and practice leaders of the health care professions
• Our Vision: to create a practice environment that is built on a spirit of inquiry
• Our Professional Practice Model
• The Department of Nursing Philosophy: to educate ourselves and others

Annually, nearly 3,000 students from more than 32 schools of nursing obtain clinical placements at MGH. The Student Group Placements with Faculty Program provides clinical placements for groups of students from local and regional schools. The Precepted Clinical Placement Program provides MGH staff preceptors for graduate and undergraduate nursing students. Students may be precepted by Staff Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses, Nursing Directors, Associate Chief Nurses, the Senior VP for Patient Care and Chief Nurse, and Primary Care Physicians. Preceptors may be rewarded and recognized for their precepting activities through vouchers for payment for courses or continuing education programs at several of our affiliating schools.
MGH staff may hold faculty appointments at local colleges and universities, teaching in graduate and undergraduate programs. Staff who teach students on site at MGH bring an added value to the teaching/learning experience, bridging the gap between what is taught in the academic setting and the realities of the complex patient care environment. Staff are also invited to be guest lecturers or visiting scholars. Many staff seize the opportunity to positively influence care through education, and MGH values mutual contributions by service and academia in the education of future health care practitioners.
There are a number of benefits of the Clinical Affiliations Program, including

• Providing leadership in patient care excellence in practice
• Establishing a sense of good will in the greater health care and academic community
• Providing a community service
• Contributing to a pool of potential recruits

All requests for graduate and undergraduate nursing student placements are made through the Massachusetts Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCP), a collaborative project of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education and the Massachusetts Center for Nursing. If an institution is not a member of the CCP, request may also be made by contacting  Julie Goldman.

 

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