Two councils rule. Four secretaries keep the record.
No placement is offered under the accord until a council member has countersigned it, and no accord is ratified until a secretary holds its file. These six people are the whole of that chain.
The bench.
Dr. Yusuf A.
Countersigns every shortlist. Acute, adult-gerontology and primary-care rotations; the council's word on whether a site's hours are the hours a program will count.
Dr. Lena M.
Psychiatric, counseling and psychology placements. Reads the supervision clause of every program handbook before a behavioral site is offered.
Tomás E.
Holds the member register of preceptors and field instructors, by state, by license and by specialty, and records which programs each has signed with before.
Ingrid S.
Applications, agreements, prerequisites and hour logs, moved every week and never left in a queue. The signatory a member hears from most.
Noor K.
Screenings, titers, certifications and background checks, each dated past the final week of the placement from the day the accord is signed.
Dmitri P.
Writes the weekly minute: hours banked, filings landed, and the next date on the calendar, sent to the member and to the institution named in the accord.
How a countersignature is given.
A council member signs a shortlist only after four questions have been answered against the program's handbook, not against the site's description of itself. Does the preceptor hold the license and specialty the program names? Is the setting the setting the course requires? Do the hours available cover the term, on the days the professional can attend? Has the site signed an agreement of this shape before, or will it? A single unanswered question keeps the site on the register and off the shortlist.
The secretaries then take the file: the agreement in the school's template, the preceptor's credentials, the compliance items dated past the final week, and the weekly minute that tells every party what has landed and what is next. The professional attends the hours and exercises the clinical judgment. The Alliance keeps the accord.