IPPE & APPE Activities & Dates
IPPE 1st Professional Year Activities
Level 1 Introductory Practice
Student Academic Level: 1st Professional Year (P1)
The purpose of this entry-level introductory practice experience is to enhance student awareness of the role of pharmacists in various pharmacy practice settings. Students receive several hours of classroom preparation on the course expectations prior to the start date of the experience.
As part of the on-site rotation each student:
- maintains documentation of exercises completed and validation of preceptor review
- maintains a task-oriented portfolio
- gives a basic oral presentation
- conducts a small project
This rotation is a two-week experience (80 total hours) for P1 students in the fall semester.
IPPE 2nd Professional Year Activities & Dates
Level 2 Introductory Practice
Student Academic Level: 2nd Professional Year (P2)
Level 2 rotations are introductory pharmacy practice experiences in community, health system pharmacy or patient care practices. Students will
- develop distribution and professional communication skills, including patient counseling
- interact with various patient populations
- provide drug information
- participate as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team
- develop sterile preparation skills
- manage a professional project and/or give an oral professional presentation to a small group
Students spend three full weeks (120 hours) at a practice site per rotation (one fall rotation and one spring rotation). Generally, students work eight-hour days, Monday-Friday. Preceptors may also utilize alternative schedules that are more conducive to learning at their practice site.
APPE 4th Professional Year Activities
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE) Student Academic Level: 4th Professional Year (P4)
The entire P4 year is comprised of APPE. Students complete seven experiences, each lasting five weeks (minimum of 200 hours). There are five required core experiences:
- Community Pharmacy
- Hospital Pharmacy
- Ambulatory Care Pharmacy
- Acute Care/General Medicine Pharmacy
- ImPaCT Project: Research Application for Patient Care
Additionally, students complete three elective rotations that take place in pharmacy specialized practices ranging from critical care, to nuclear pharmacy, to leadership and a host of others. A web-based matching process is used to place students with preceptors and to manage student assessments.
The final element of the APPE program is the ImPaCT rotation during which students design and complete a project in a practice environment that most interests them in cooperation with a preceptor and under the guidance of the ImPaCT coordinator.
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