preceptor

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Clark also told the instructor that "you are not going to treat me that way" and "you are the worst preceptor I have ever had."

From Fox News • Aug. 9, 2021

In hospitals, my colleagues and I have found that creating a nurse preceptor role — a professional whose job is to help other nurses — facilitates help-seeking.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2020

Mother wit came to the rescue in the person of Anicetus the freedman, preceptor of Nero’s boyish years, and detested by Agrippina with a vigour which was reciprocated.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

More recently, Rosa worked as a training captain, leading new firefighters through the academy, and a paramedic preceptor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2018

My preceptor indicated that it would delight him to offer assistance upon any point wherein his small powers might prove of use—declensions, verb irregularities.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson