1. Send your profile
Ten minutes on the form: what you hold, the population you could teach, the state your patients are in, the hours a week you can spare, and whether you would teach in clinic, on camera or both. A coordinator replies inside one business day with the openings that match or the gap that blocks them.
2. Verify once, use everywhere
Four items go up: a CV, your license, your certification and a short description of your practice. The license is checked against the issuing board and the certification against the body that granted it. Those same four items then satisfy every program you are later approved by.
3. The affiliation agreement
A program may only place a student under an agreement with the practice where the student will be. If your practice already holds one with that school it is simply confirmed. If not, one is drafted in the school's own template and sent to whoever signs on the practice's behalf. Reckon on one to two weeks, none of it in your hands.
4. Orientation
Ninety minutes by video, taken whenever suits you before a student starts: the log they keep, the two evaluations you sign, how to hand over a patient without losing the hour, and a pair of teaching methods that survive a full clinic. It is not accredited continuing education and is not charged for.
5. A card, and your answer
Each opening reaches you as six fields: program, course, term dates, hour count, population and the mode the school permits, with a short note from the student. You have 72 hours to accept or decline. Only an acceptance releases names in either direction.
6. The term, then the money
The student turns up having read the onboarding list you set. They log hours, you teach, and when you sign the midpoint evaluation the first deposit is released. The second follows the final evaluation. One named coordinator stays on the placement from start to finish.
Where the three weeks actually go
Nearly all of it is the agreement. A placement office reads your documents against its own handbook and then signs with your practice on a schedule it controls. A clinician whose practice already works with that school can be cleared in days. A clinician inside a large health system, where a legal department reviews every agreement, should plan for the far end of the range.
Once you are approved the academic calendar takes over. Terms begin in January, May and August, so approval in April usually means several cards by summer, while approval in October may mean a quiet wait until the new year.