- a word derived from preceptor.
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The RCN has been calling for nurses to automatically move up to band six after working an initial preceptorship period, possibly 18-months.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025
From the most interested and promising, the doctors chose the 57 who went through last week's preceptorship program.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One Ayscough, who had been preceptor to Prince George, and who had "not taught him to read English, though eleven years old," was about to be removed from the preceptorship.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
It did not, however, produce any effect, and the whole course of instruction which the Prince underwent was private, though the preceptorship was twice changed.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
How long the latter’s preceptorship lasted cannot be determined with precision.
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)