Our role

CMER ensures clinical education is coordinated, consistent, and aligned with organizational policies, accreditation requirements, and patient care needs across the PeaceHealth Oregon Network.

Our work supports:

• Access to high-quality clinical training experiences
• Strong partnerships with regional academic institutions
• Community health through education and service
• Integration of learning, care delivery, and continuous improvement
• Development of the regional healthcare workforce pipeline

What we do

CMER coordinates and supports clinical education by:

• Managing clinical rotations and clerkships for affiliated programs
• Matching learners with qualified preceptors and care teams
• Verifying onboarding, credentialing, and program requirements
• Providing individualized onboarding to support learner readiness
• Supporting scheduling, documentation, and evaluation processes
• Facilitating collaboration in quality improvement and clinical research
• Promoting safe, supervised patient care appropriate to each learner's level of training

Our impact

CMER strengthens both education and patient care across the region by:

• Sustaining long-term academic partnerships and training programs
• Placing learners in a variety of specialties and care settings
• Supporting clinician educators and interdisciplinary teaching environments
• Advancing quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives
• Strengthening Oregon's future healthcare workforce

Clinical learning model

CMER promotes a team-based learning environment where learners receive:

• Supervision from experienced attending physicians and advanced practice clinicians
• Progressive responsibility based on training level and demonstrated competence
• Experience across inpatient, outpatient, and specialty care settings
• Direct participation in patient care within their approved scope of practice

For clinicians and preceptors

CMER supports PeaceHealth clinicians who serve as educators by:

• Coordinating learner placements and schedules
• Providing onboarding requirements and program guidance
• Supporting evaluation and documentation processes
• Serving as a central point of contact for academic program communication

CMER coordinates observation and clinical placement requests for learners enrolled in accredited academic programs and for approved practitioner or clinician requests only.

CMER does not arrange:

• Informal shadowing experiences
• Independent placement requests
• Experiences outside established academic partnerships
• Unaffiliated observational experiences