E*Value at Drexel: preceptor evaluations, hour validation and what to confirm

Drexel's Become A Clinical Preceptor page gives preceptors two tasks in E*Value: complete both a midterm and a final evaluation, and validate the student's clinical hours. It is the only current Drexel page that names a clinical tracking system for NP students, so E*Value is the Drexel system your preceptor is most likely to meet.

E*Value is made by MedHub, which sells it as eValue to graduate nursing and health-science programs. Drexel decides how it is configured, and the vendor's general feature list won't tell you which parts your course actually uses.

The same Drexel page says preceptors stay in touch with clinical faculty about your progress and receive a Certificate of Appreciation at the end of each term listing the verified hours they precepted. Those verified hours are the ones your preceptor signs off in E*Value, which is why accurate hours matter to both of you.

Until Drexel moves to semesters in Fall 2027, NP clinical courses run in ten-week quarters, with the didactic course alongside the rotation. Most single clinical courses carry 160 hours in the current catalog, such as NURS 534 for FNP or NURS 570 for AGACNP, so a midterm evaluation arrives when you're roughly halfway through a heavy block of time with one preceptor.

That timing works in your favor. A midterm review while the course is still running gives you weeks to act on feedback before the final evaluation closes the term.

Drexel doesn't publish the evaluation forms or their due dates. In the first week of each clinical course, ask your clinical faculty when each evaluation opens and closes and whether you complete a self-evaluation or a site evaluation of your own. Then give those dates to your preceptor, who is juggling a full patient schedule alongside your paperwork.

Your preceptor validating your hours in E*Value is Drexel's stated check that the hours happened. What the public pages leave open is how the hours get into the system in the first place. No current Drexel page says whether NP students log hours, patient encounters or case details in E*Value, and the research behind this site found no Drexel link to Typhon.

The one older reference points somewhere else. A 2016–17 Drexel clinical handbook for the Advanced Role MSN tracks, such as Leadership and the Clinical Nurse Leader, had students log hours in the EXXAT Clinical Tracking System. It predates the current preceptor page and wasn't written for nurse practitioner students, so read it as history rather than instructions.

NUPR 520 introduces Drexel's clinical support services and your track's clinical requirements, which makes it the natural place to ask. If a point isn't covered there, your clinical faculty or track director can answer it.

• Which system you log clinical hours in, and whether patient encounters or case details are logged as well
• How often hours should be entered, and the cut-off for each term
• How your preceptor gets E*Value access, and whom they contact if it hasn't arrived
• When the midterm and final evaluations open and close
• Whether you evaluate your preceptor or your clinical site
• How hours are handled if you change preceptors partway through a course
• Whether anything changes for semester courses such as NURS 7600

A preceptor who knows the admin load up front is easier to keep. These steps take a few minutes and save a scramble at the end of the term.

1. Mention it when you askWhen you first approach a clinician, explain that Drexel uses E*Value for two evaluations and an hours sign-off each term.
2. Share the datesOnce your faculty confirms the evaluation windows, send them to your preceptor in writing.
3. Check access earlyAsk your preceptor to confirm they can open E*Value well before the midterm, not on the day it's due.
4. Keep your own logRecord dates, hours and settings each day in a simple sheet that matches whatever you enter, so validation is quick.
5. Close out the termBefore the term ends, check that the final evaluation is submitted and your hours show as validated.

Evaluations and validated hours only happen once a preceptor has said yes, and finding that preceptor is our specialty. We search for NP, CNM and physician preceptors in the right specialty who meet Drexel's rules, and we tell them at the outset what a Drexel term involves, from the two E*Value evaluations to the hours sign-off.

If your preceptor has to stop partway through a course, we remain on call and begin the replacement search as soon as you tell us, so the hours you still need keep moving. Drexel approves every preceptor, and we see to it that the CV, license and board certification it reviews are complete and current. Precepting Drexel students shows what preceptors are told.