How it Works
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The first step is to sign up for a FREE Clinical Match Me account.
Next, log into your account, navigate to the Placements screen and submit a Placement Request. This step is essential! In order to match you with a Nurse Practitioner preceptor, we need specific information from the Placement Request, including:
- Estimated start date and end dates for your clinical rotation
- Specialty
- Approximate number of hours
- Geographic regions such as states or zip codes you’re willing to travel to
We urge you to submit a Placement Request immediately after signing up. We can’t start the matching process until we receive your Placement Request, so don’t delay! If you need placement for multiple clinical rotations, it’s best to submit them all at once.
After you submit a Placement Request, our system automatically notifies matching Nurse Practitioner preceptors. They can then review your Placement Request and profile and the interested ones will send you Offers.
This is one of the key differences between Clinical Match Me and other preceptor placement companies. With other companies, you have to pay a deposit first and then hope a preceptor accepts you. With Clinical Match Me, you don’t pay anything until AFTER a preceptor has sent you an offer.
With other companies, you’re at the mercy of preceptors. With Clinical Match Me, YOU decide which offers to accept. Many of our students receive multiple offers.
Most students are placed within a few days to a week or two. However, if you have a difficult placement, such as an unusual specialty, or an area with few Nurse Practitioner preceptors, we automatically activate Secondary Outreach.
Unique to Clinical Match Me, our Secondary Outreach system automatically starts contacting out-of-network doctors and NPs and attempts to recruit them as preceptors, specifically for your rotation. This process takes longer, but it doesn’t cost you anything extra and you don’t have to do anything more. The system just works automatically to recruit a preceptor for you.
Usually, Secondary Outreach isn’t needed, but it’s nice to know that it’s there!
Each offer you receive will contain the preceptor’s location, specialties, CV and other important information. You can message the preceptors to ask them additional questions, or to request a video interview.
This is another big advantage of Clinical Match Me. On our platform, you can review preceptor information and interview preceptors before paying anything. You only pay AFTER accepting an offer.
After you’ve decided on a preceptor:
- Click the Accept Offer button in your account.
- You’ll receive the student agreement to e-sign and you’ll be directed to our payment form. The price on the payment form will be the same as the amount specified in the offer. The offer price is all-inclusive. It includes both our fee and the preceptor’s honorarium. You will NEVER have to pay anything additional to the preceptor.
- After accepting an offer, you have five days to pay. If you don’t pay within five days, the offer will be canceled.
- We strongly encourage you to pay as quickly as possible after accepting an offer. Although you can wait up to five days, the preceptor isn’t locked in until you pay.
- You can pay for the rotation up-front, or select one of our payment plans which range from 2 – 24 months.
- We offer a Money Back Guarantee that protects you from adverse actions by your school or your preceptor. If your school rejects your preceptor, or your preceptor drops out, you’ll receive a full refund.
Finally, you’ll need to submit your preceptor for approval by your school. You can upload your school’s paperwork to our secure platform. We’ll then forward it to the preceptor and return the completed documents back to you.
We provide the document management service as a convenience, but If you prefer, you may work directly with the preceptor.
If your school rejects the preceptor for any reason whatsoever, just send us the rejection letter and we’ll give you a full refund!
Why Clinical Match Me?
We’re the “OG” Nurse Practitioner preceptor placement company. Since 2014, we’ve helped thousands of NP students find a preceptor.
FREE Sign Up
Signing up is completely free and takes just two minutes. After you register, you’ll have full access to our NP preceptor matching portal, where you can submit placement requests, exchange messages with preceptors and view and manage offers from preceptors.
No Payment Until You’re Matched
With Clinical Match Me, you pay nothing until you’re matched. No sign up fees, no subscriptions, no rush fees, no service charges, no nonsense! Use our platform as often as you like and submit as many placement requests as you want. You won’t pay a dime until you accept an offer from a preceptor.
Affordable Pricing
Up to 24-month Payment Plans
Since we place so many students, we’re able to offer some of the most affordable pricing in the industry. Our fees are all-inclusive, so there’s never a separate payment to the preceptor. We also offer payment plans from 2 – 24 months, that allow you to pay in installments instead of paying for the entire rotation in advance.
Money Back Guarantee
With Clinical Match Me, you’re protected against the following two circumstances:
- Your school rejects your preceptor for any reason whatsoever
- Your preceptor disappears or cancels the rotation without cause
In either of these situations, we’ll either replace the preceptor or give you a full refund, at your option.
Personalized Matching
With Clinical Match Me, you submit Placement Requests and preceptors send you Offers. Due to our large preceptor network, many of our students receive offers from multiple preceptors. This allows you to carefully select the best preceptor for you, rather than getting stuck with a preceptor you know little about.
Paperwork Automation
Upon request, we can handle all the school paperwork for you. Just upload the documents to our secure portal and we’ll handle the rest. We’ll forward the documents to your preceptor and return the completed documents to you or your school.
Join the thousands of happy NP students who used Clinical Match Me to find a preceptor
Just the FAQs
Most preceptor placement companies fall into one of two categories:
- Mass-production – Churns through students and plugs them into pre-set rotations.
- Bespoke – Highly personalized. Places students individually with carefully selected preceptors.
As you can imagine, the mass-production companies are cheap, but you’re pretty much stuck with whatever rotations are available when you sign up. You can view preceptor profiles, but you can’t see their CVs or interview them. The bespoke companies provide a higher level of service, but are much more costly.
With Clinical Match Me, you get the best of both worlds. We’re one of the most affordable companies, yet we offer a bespoke level of service, far exceeding even the most expensive preceptor placement companies. This is only possible because of our proprietary technology platform that automates much of the process.
90% of our preceptors offer flat rate pricing of $1,995 for rotations up to 250 hours.
See our Pricing page for more details.
Yes! When you receive an offer from a preceptor, that’s the total all-inclusive price. To book the rotation, you just pay us the offer amount. There’s never a separate payment to the preceptor.
- We guarantee that your school will approve your preceptor. If your school rejects the preceptor, just send us a copy of the rejection letter and we’ll issue a refund immediately.
- We guarantee that your preceptor will follow through. If the preceptor cancels or disappears you’ll receive a full refund. Please note that “for cause” terminations are not covered by the guarantee.
Visit the Money Back Guarantee page to learn more.
- We literally invented the preceptor placement industry. Clinical Match Me was founded by a Nurse Practitioner who couldn’t graduate on time due to the difficulty in finding preceptors. At that time, no one else was doing this.
- We’ve been doing this since 2014. With more than ten years placing students, we have more experience than any other company.
- It costs you nothing to try our service. We allow you to create a profile on our website, submit placement requests, receive offers from preceptors, review their CVs, exchange messages and interview preceptors before ever making a payment. Clinical Match Me is the ZERO RISK NP preceptor placement company.
- We have the largest preceptor network by far. Not only do we have more preceptors, but our advanced outreach technology platform automatically contacts preceptors outside our network if we don’t have an in-network preceptor who meets your requirements. This outreach process takes a bit longer, but it gives you a big advantage for hard-to-place rotations.
- We have hundreds of 5-star reviews on Google and Trustpilot.
Many students find a preceptor within 24-hours of submitting a placement request. Others take longer. It’s impossible to generalize because they are many factors, such as your specialty, school requirements, geographic requirements, etc… However, we’ve successfully placed many students who tried multiple placement companies before coming to us.
