For NP and PA students
PreceptorScout is a preceptor search tool for NP and PA students. We index every clinician in your state, rank them by how likely they are to take a student, and give you their contact details and the scripts to reach out by phone, email or LinkedIn. Work the list, track your progress, and find your preceptor. We're here to help.
From $79 · Instant access · No fees to preceptors
The problem
NP and PA students complete hundreds of supervised clinical hours before graduation, and in many programs the student finds the preceptor. In one program's survey, 82% of family NP students said finding a preceptor was very difficult and almost 1 in 4 paid out of pocket. Students wait months and drive hours, and a rotation that slips can push graduation back a semester.
Why students choose PreceptorScout
| Searching on your own | With PreceptorScout | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a list | Evenings and weekends of digging | Minutes |
| Who you reach | Whoever you happen to find | The 30 most likely to say yes, chosen from every clinician registered in your state |
| How you reach them | Guesswork | Scripts for phone, email and LinkedIn |
| Staying organized | A spreadsheet, if that | A tracker across every rotation |
| Cost | Your time | From $79 |
A name unlocks every channel: the practice website, the LinkedIn profile, a classmate who rotated there, or a front door to walk through with a résumé. Cold calling is one option on the list, never the only one.
Refine the search
Every clinician in the federal registry is indexed and ready: more than 1.1 million nurse practitioners, physician associates and physicians across all 50 states. Narrow the list to exactly what your program needs and spend your time reaching out instead of digging.
The Likelihood Rating
A rating from 0 to 100 that estimates how likely a contact is to turn into a real conversation, built from public registry signals.
Clinicians registered as sole proprietors decide for themselves. Employed clinicians at large systems usually cannot.
How many clinicians share the practice address. A solo office answers its own phone. A campus with 40 NPs has a switchboard.
Most programs ask for preceptors with at least a year or two of experience. The rating favors them.
Toll-free numbers usually belong to national telehealth groups. They rank lower because the call rarely reaches the clinician.
As students log the outcome of each contact, the rating learns from real results and the list gets better for the next student in your area.
The process
State, specialty, dates, distance from your zip, and which preceptor license types your program accepts. Refine as far as you like.
30 ranked names, each with practice phone, address, a Likelihood Rating, a one-tap LinkedIn and web search, and an email template that opens in your own mail app. Need more? Unlock the next 30.
Call, email, message on LinkedIn, or walk in. Reach out your way, in the order that gives you the best chance.
Log every call and reply in your tracker to stay organized across every rotation. When the rotation ends, rate your preceptor. Your outcomes and your rating make the list better for the next class.
We built PreceptorScout because we remember the search. The spreadsheet of names. The messages nobody answered. The semester that almost slipped because one rotation had no preceptor. Nobody should miss a graduation date because they could not find the right name. Now you can.
Pricing
Start with a pack. Add a refill when you need more names. Or cover your whole program with one pass.
30 ranked names, chosen from every clinician registered in your state and ordered by likelihood, with the scripts, the LinkedIn and web lookups, and your tracker.
Buy a packThe next 30 names in the same area, any time you need them. Available inside your account.
Unlimited names and refills for 24 months. Covers an NP program start to finish, or a PA clinical year with room to spare.
Buy the passNo fees to preceptors, ever. Secure checkout through Stripe, and your list is on screen the moment you finish.
Refer a classmate. They get $10 off their first pack or pass, and you get $10 back. Your referral link is in your dashboard.
How we work
For programs
Program seats put the full PreceptorScout pass in every student's hands and give your clinical coordinator one screen that shows who is placed, who is still searching, and where the search is stuck.
Per student, per year. 25-seat minimum. Invoiced to the program, purchase orders welcome.
Questions
Reaching the right 30 clinicians beats messaging 100 random names, and most students hear back from several. Work the list in order, use the scripts, and log every outcome. If you need more names, a refill is $49, and because every logged outcome teaches the rating, your next 30 are better than your first.
No. PreceptorScout is a search and tracking tool. We give you the names, the ranking and the method, and you make the connection yourself. No money changes hands with the preceptor.
The National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), the federal registry that lists every clinician who bills insurance, with specialty, practice address and practice phone. We refresh it monthly.
They are the practice phone each clinician published in the registry. For a clinic that is the front desk. For a solo or telehealth practice it is often the clinician's direct line.
Yes. The email template opens in your own mail app, prefilled with the clinician's name and your rotation details, and you send it from your school address. Replies to a school address run far higher than to a third-party sender.
Nurse practitioners, physicians (MD and DO) and physician associates. You choose which types your program accepts when you search.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia. Pick yours when you sign up.
At the end of a rotation you answer a few quick questions: would you recommend this preceptor, how was the teaching, how responsive were they. Positive ratings surface as "Recommended by students" on future lists. Concerns go to us, never to a public page, and we use them to adjust the rating quietly.
Share the link in your dashboard. A classmate who signs up through it gets $10 off, and $10 comes back to you as account credit once their purchase clears.
No. Nothing is shared with your program unless you share it. Affiliation agreements and paperwork work exactly as they do with any preceptor you find on your own.
Start my search
No forms to wait on and no account to request. Sign-up takes a minute and your first list is on screen right after.
Pick a pack or the pass and pay securely. Your receipt and login arrive by email.
Program, specialty, state and zip, dates, and the preceptor license types your program accepts.
Your names appear immediately, ranked and ready. Work the list and track your progress from any device.
For clinicians
Lists are built from your public registry record. Send your name and NPI and your record is suppressed for every student within one business day.