Definition of "preceptorship" []

• A period of practical experience and training for a student, especially of medicine or nursing, that is supervised by an expert or specialist in a particular field. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "- Forest Laboratories created "preceptorship" programs in which physicians were paid up to"
• "My first-ever experience with dentistry was during a preceptorship I had my senior year."
• "The rep had recently spent a day doing a “preceptorship,” a practice in which a drug company pays doctors to let a rep shadow them while they see patients."