Partners judge. Associates file.
No clinic is offered until a partner has given an opinion on it, and no matter moves unless an associate is moving it. These are the six people who do that work, and the test each applies.
Two partners, four associates.
Dr. Eleanor W.
Reads every shortlist before it reaches you. Family and primary-care matters, and the partner who advises when a site is not worth the risk it carries.
Dr. Marcus J.
Psychiatric and counseling matters. Rules on every telehealth engagement against the program's handbook and the licensing board, and says so in writing.
Sofia G.
Keeper of the partner book, which lists every clinic by state, then license, then specialty, and records the programs it has engaged with before.
David K.
Applications, agreements, prerequisites and logs, advanced weekly and reported weekly. The associate a client hears from most.
Lena F.
Titers, screenings and certifications, dated past the engagement before it opens, collected against the clinic's own list.
Theo M.
Author of the weekly letter, which tells each client and each institution what has been filed, what is still pending, and what the firm will do next.
Four questions, answered in writing.
A partner's opinion on a clinic answers four questions against the program's handbook, and is given before the clinic is approached. Does the preceptor hold the license and the specialty the program names? Is the setting the one the course requires, rather than a neighbor of it? Will the hours the clinic can give fill the term on days the professional is free to attend? Has the clinic accepted this program's paperwork before, or will it? Behavioral matters carry a fifth question, put to the supervision rule of the licensing board itself, which a program may make stricter but may not relax. A clinic that fails any question stays in the book and off the shortlist.
Once a partner has passed a clinic, the associates take over. The agreement goes to the school in the template the school prescribes; the credentials and the compliance items follow, each dated beyond the engagement; and the weekly letter reports filed, pending and next. Your part is the hours and the clinical judgment. The file is the firm's.