The nine fields on an open listing
Every opening arrives as a card with the same fields filled in. The program and the state it teaches from. The course and the track, for instance a psychiatric practicum or an adult-gerontology primary care course. Start and end dates. Total hours required. The permitted video share, written as a number rather than a hope. Weekly cadence, which is usually one day or two half-days. The student's year, their prior clinical experience and what they have asked to work on.
Two more fields matter as much as the rest. The rate is shown as your own figure, the one you entered when you applied, multiplied out across the hours so you can see the total before you commit. And the card carries a coordinator's name and direct line, because one person owns the rotation from acceptance to final evaluation. Nothing is hidden until later. Matching explains how the cards are built.
Hours, dates and the money on a remote block
Most telehealth openings run a standard block: 120 student hours inside a 14 to 16 week academic term. That averages eight or nine hours weekly, which is one telehealth day. Half-blocks of 60 hours exist for preceptors who can offer a single half-day, and a few courses ask for smaller counts to finish a student who fell short elsewhere. Dates are the program's, and they cluster at the start of January, May and August.
The arithmetic is plain. A 120-hour block pays $1,440 at the bottom of the band and $2,400 at the top, and where you land is your own choice made once at application. The money reaches you in two direct deposits keyed to the two evaluations, and a 1099-NEC follows each January if the year's total reached six hundred dollars. See the rate card for the mechanics.
Where remote openings actually are
Psychiatric mental health is where remote demand concentrates, and it is not close. Medication management visits work through a camera, psychiatric programs have grown fast, and preceptors in that population are scarce everywhere. Family and adult-gerontology primary care come next, mostly for chronic disease panels and results visits. Women's health has fewer remote hours because of exams, and acute care has almost none.
Geography works differently than job seekers expect. The student's home city is close to irrelevant, since they join a call. What matters is that you are licensed where your patients are. Programs running distance cohorts place students across many states, so openings follow preceptor licensure rather than campus location. States with large distance enrolments and thin provider supply, which in practice means much of the South and Mountain West, produce the most listings.
- Psychiatric mental health: the largest volume of remote openings, in every term.
- Family and adult-gerontology primary care: steady demand for follow-up and chronic disease hours.
- Nurse educator and leadership practica: fully remote, no patients involved at all.
- Acute care, women's health exams and procedural specialties: little to no remote availability.
Claiming one, and what you are signing up for
When a card matches your credential, state, hours and mode, you have 72 hours to accept it. That window exists so a student is not left waiting while three preceptors think it over. Declining costs you nothing and does not push you down any queue. Once you accept, the coordinator confirms with the program and the paperwork moves, which the paperwork page describes in order.
Understand the shape of the arrangement. This is independent contractor work billed per rotation, not employment. There is no salary, no benefits, no manager and no minimum commitment beyond the block you accepted. You keep your day job and your own schedule. You owe your own tax on the income. In exchange you can teach one student this term, three next year, or none at all.
In order
- 01
Set your filters once
Population, states you are licensed in, weekly hours, and video as your preferred mode.
- 02
Read the card
Program, course, dates, hours, video share, student background, your total for the block.
- 03
Accept inside 72 hours
Or decline in one click. A decline is not a mark against you and costs nothing.
- 04
Let the agreement finish
The coordinator confirms with the program while your documents go to its placement office.
- 05
Start on the program's date
First video visit, first consent line, first hours on the log that same week.
Open your hours with telehealth as your mode, and the next matching card comes to you instead of the other way round.
Apply to preceptQuestions
Is a remote preceptor job an actual job?
Not in the employment sense. Each rotation is a contract for a set number of student hours, paid at your rate, with no salary or benefits attached. People search for it as a job because that is how job boards are worded. Think of it as paid teaching work you add to a clinical schedule you already have.
Which state license do I need for remote precepting?
The one covering the state where your patients are, because you are the treating provider on every visit. The student's location matters much less; they are joining your call. If a program teaches from another state entirely, that is normally fine, and a coordinator confirms the requirement before you accept the placement.
How many hours a week does a remote rotation take?
Eight or nine for a standard 120-hour block spread across a term, which is one telehealth day. Four or five for a half-block. Add fifteen minutes at the end of each session for feedback and a few minutes each week to confirm the student's log. The teaching time overlaps your clinical time rather than adding to it.
What does a remote preceptor earn per rotation?
Between fourteen hundred and twenty-four hundred dollars for a full 120-hour block, depending on the hourly figure you chose. A half-block earns half of that. Video hours are paid identically to in-clinic hours; there is no discount for teaching from a desk. Payment arrives in two deposits rather than one lump at the end.
How quickly do remote openings fill?
Psychiatric openings can be claimed within a day of posting during term-start weeks in December, April and July. Primary care openings sit longer. Volume is seasonal rather than steady, so a preceptor who joins in October may see nothing until the new year and then several cards in two weeks.
