Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance communication with students and meet objectives established by SCCP and our accrediting body, ACPE. Replace or address the highlighted text with the information that is specific to your rotation, then delete this header text and the highlighted instructions for your final syllabus.
Course Title: Elective Pharmacy Practice Experience
Site Information:
Site Name
Site Address
Preceptor Information:
Name & Credentials
Phone Number
Email Address
Indicate preferred communication method
Course Purpose: The goal of the Elective Pharmacy Practice Experience is to provide opportunities for students to build upon knowledge and skills acquired through didactic education and Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences and apply them in non-traditional settings. This practice experience is accomplished in such settings as health care related professional societies, pharmaceutical industry corporate headquarters or manufacturing facilities, nuclear pharmacy, long term care, administration and academia, poison centers, drug information, etc. The setting may or may not have direct patient contact. This experience will be directed and evaluated by one or more preceptors.
Patient Population(s) Exposed To:
Specify patient populations students exposed to regularly if applicable (i.e. diverse population of adults and children)
Hours Credit: Four
Pre-Rotation Requirements for Student:
Indicate any information or documentation that the student must provide prior to starting rotation (i.e. On-site orientation, site-specific paperwork, drug test, physical).
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this Elective Pharmacy Practice Experience, students should be able to:
Enter any additional objectives at the end of the list. If you feel any of the provided objectives do not apply to your site, discuss with the Experiential Education Department.
1. Collaborate as an interprofessional team member in a variety of healthcare settings.
2. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills to healthcare practitioners and patients or other professionals contained at the workplace.
3. Demonstrate mature and professional attitudes, habits, values, and behaviors.
4. Recommend appropriate prescription and nonprescription medications, dietary supplements, diet, nutrition, traditional nondrug therapies, and complementary and alternative therapies to patients and members of the healthcare team, taking into consideration patient’s specific pharmacotherapeutic agents, dosing regimens, dosage forms, routes of administration, delivery systems, and pharmacokinetic principles in order to promote optimal health care.
5. Formulate a concise and evidence-based patient-centered care plan in collaboration with other health care professionals, patients, and/or their caregivers which considers a patient’s health literacy, culture, and psychosocial factors to provide optimal health care.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of the most common acute and chronic disease states. Enter any additional disease states not listed above that the student should have baseline knowledge of upon entering the rotation.
a. Alzheimer’s i. Asthma
b. Cancer j. COPD
c. Diabetes k. Heart Disease
d. HIV / AIDS l. Hypertension
e. Influenza & Pneumonia m. Kidney Disease
f. Liver Disease n. Metabolic Syndrome
g. Obesity o. Parkinson’s Disease
h. Septicemia p. Stroke
7. Identify, report, and analyze medication errors and adverse drug reactions to identify preventable cause and remedial preventive actions. Manage the medication use system and apply the system’s approach to medication safety.
8. Adhere to legal requirements in pharmacy practice, including, but not limited to, accreditation, legal, regulatory/legislative, safety requirements, and drug administration. Participate in discussions regarding the role of key organizations in public safety and key health care policy matters that may affect pharmacy.
9. Retrieve, analyze, evaluate, and apply (using critical thinking, problem-solving, and scientific reasoning skills) relevant scientific data, evidence-based data, and other information when solving practice problems (patient-specific and general practice) utilizing technology available at the rotation site.
10. Perform systematic literature/reference searches and reviews to provide pharmacotherapy/drug information to healthcare practitioners or the lay public verbally and/or in writing.
11. Present a patient summary with confidence and in an organized format that includes pertinent information (includes documentation in charts and to preceptor/healthcare team).
12. Provide education to a diverse patient population and healthcare professionals regarding medical conditions, wellness, dietary supplements, durable medical equipment, and medical and devices.
13. Participate in the allocation and supervision of employees, data management systems, medication resource management, including workload and financial performance.
14. Participate in discussions regarding drug approval process. Manage investigational drugs utilized at the site.
15. Discuss business plan development to support a new service, including the need, feasibility, resources, and sources of funding. Participate in the design, development, marketing, and reimbursement process for new services.
16. Add any additional objective(s) that students will complete that specifically pertain to your rotation.
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills:
Students must have successfully completed Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences and required didactice courses prior to beginning their Elective Pharmacy Practice Experience. List specific items that students should be knowledgeable about prior to starting your rotation such as disease states, relevant laws and regulations. Students should be familiar with and prepared to apply treatment guidelines for optimal patient care for the following disease states:
a. Alzheimer’s
b. Asthma
c. Cancer
d. COPD
e. Diabetes
f. Heart Disease
g. HIV / AIDS
h. Hypertension
i. Influenza & Pneumonia
j. Kidney Disease
k. Liver Disease
l. Metabolic Syndrome
m. Obesity
n. Parkinson’s Disease
o. Septicemia
p. Stroke
q. Enter any additional disease states not listed above that the student should have baseline knowledge of upon entering the rotation.
Attendance Requirements: Students are expected to abide by the attendance requirements set forth in the SCCP APPE Experiential Manual. Requirements are located at:
http://www.sccp.sc.edu/programs/experiential/forms/General/APPE%20Advanced%20Practice%20Experiential%20Manual.pdf
Dress Code Requirements: Students are expected to abide by the dress code requirements found in the SCCP Academic Bulletin and SCCP APPE Experiential Manual. List any site-specific dress code requirements here.
Academic Integrity: Students are expected to abide by the academic integrity policy found in the SCCP Academic Bulletin. MUSC and USC university-specific policies may apply where necessary.
Site-Specific Requirements:
List any parking requirements or other site-specific hospital rules that students must abide by here.
Student Schedule:
· State the hours the student is expected to be on site. If applicable, indicate that the hours may not be firm, and describe situations in which a student may need to stay after hours in order to complete tasks.
· State events or meetings inside or outside those hours that a student should attend.
· If possible, provide typical daily schedule indicating when different activities or breaks may take place. Include time to meet with student to discuss student’s performance (at minimum midpoint and final evaluations) and make recommendations for improvement.
· Consider constructing a calendar of dates/times to discuss specific topics, have journal club meetings, or other assignment discussions. Determining in advance what these will be allows the student to be prepared.
Grading Procedures:
Grading will occur via electronic APPE evaluations on E-Value. Students will receive a grade at midpoint that does not count towards the final grade on a transcript. The grade received at midpoint evaluation will be utilized for student self-reflection and to set goals for the second remaining half of the rotation. Students will receive a final grade on the last day of the APPE that will be transferred to the student’s transcript. Grading occurs via an automatic calculation present in electronic evaluations in E-Value.
Grading Scale:
A: 90 – 100
B+: 85 – 89.99
B: 80 – 84.99
C+: 75 – 79.99
C: 70 – 74.99
D+: 65 – 69.99
D: 60 – 64.99
F: 59.99
Assignments/Activities:
Learning Objective / Example Components/Activities of Learning Objective(delete this column after moving components/activities you will utilize to column to the right) / Required Activities/Assignments
(The following assignments/activities will be used to introduce, practice, and/or assess the particular outcome)
(fill in any example components from column to the left that will use as well as additional assignments/activities you will use) / Mapped Evaluation Competency
(The following competency being measured is based on the evaluation assigned to this rotation)
(select one or more competencies on your respective evaluation – all competencies should have related objectives/activities)
Collaborate as an interprofessional team member in a variety of healthcare settings.
/ · Prepare and deliver educational programs to health professionals that promote appropriate use of medications.
· Discuss drug therapy and progress of assigned patients with preceptor and/or other professionals without notice.
· Describe the mission, goals and objectives of the organization to which he/she is assigned and its role in the health care delivery system.
Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills to healthcare practitioners and patients or other professionals contained at the workplace. / · Prepare and deliver educational programs to health professionals or a lay audience that promote appropriate use of medications and/or health promotion.
Demonstrate mature and professional attitudes, habits, values, and behaviors. / · Demonstrate responsibility by being on time for all clerkship related activities, dressing professionally, respecting lines of authority.
· Complete all tasks thoroughly and in a timely manner, and communicate appropriately.
· Demonstrate good judgment, initiative, responsibility and maturity.
· Incorporate feedback from preceptor(s) for future behavior.
· Cooperate with patients, pharmacy staff, other health professionals, and employees.
· Show assertiveness and independence by undertaking self-directed responsibilities and articulating personal viewpoint.
· Demonstrate pride and purpose for the role of the pharmacist in the total health care of the patient.
· Discuss with the preceptor strategies for meeting the pharmacist’s need for life-long learning. (e.g., participate in local pharmaceutical association meetings, continuing education programs, presentations to community organizations, etc.)
· Demonstrate respect for patients and other health care professionals.
Recommend appropriate prescription and nonprescription medications, dietary supplements, diet, nutrition, traditional nondrug therapies, and complementary and alternative therapies to patients and members of the healthcare team, taking into consideration patient’s specific pharmacotherapeutic agents, dosing regimens, dosage forms, routes of administration, delivery systems, and pharmacokinetic principles in order to promote optimal health care.
Formulate a concise and evidence-based patient-centered care plan in collaboration with other health care professionals, patients, and/or their caregivers which considers a patient’s health literacy, culture, and psychosocial factors to provide optimal health care. / · Conduct 4 patient history interviews and complete / update patient medical record accordingly.
· Instruct patients in medication education classes.
Demonstrate an understanding of the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of the most common acute and chronic disease states. / · Identify laboratory tests necessary to diagnose and monitor various disease states, describing the usefulness and limitations of each test.
· Describe how certain disease states affect laboratory values and how they alter the interpretation of these laboratory values.
· Review the mechanism of action, indications, contraindications, adverse effects, and drug-interactions for each of the patient’s medications.
· Assess findings to determine real and potential pharmacotherapeutic problems, ranks them in order of acuity; describes probable causes/effects, and gathers additional information to define/clarify the problems.
Identify, report, and analyze medication errors and adverse drug reactions to identify preventable cause and remedial preventive actions. Manage the medication use system and apply the system’s approach to medication safety. / · Participate in quality processes that promote effective drug use and/or health (e.g., medication safety, quality improvement, drug use evaluations).
· Participate in preparing and/or submitting an actual or simulated adverse event or medication error report to a standard reporting system (e.g., FDA MedWatch, medication error reporting, etc). Note: student's role may include reporting simulation and/or discussion with the preceptor.
· Discuss with preceptor look-alike, sound-alike medications and methods to limit medication errors.
Adhere to legal requirements in pharmacy practice, including, but not limited to, accreditation, legal, regulatory/legislative, safety requirements, and drug administration. Participate in discussions regarding the role of key organizations in public safety and key health care policy matters that may affect pharmacy. / · Discuss with the preceptor, or other pharmacist, national quality measures and safe medication use. Topics may include review of National Patient Safety Goals, Joint Commission accreditation, National Hospital Quality Measures, HEDIS, HCAHPS, etc
· Spend time with the staff member(s) responsible for controlled substances, with exposure to the following: a) procedures for procurement of controlled substances; b) inventory/storage requirements; c) procedures for distribution/tracking of controlled substances and prevention of theft/diversion; and d) procedures for disposal/handling of expired or partially used products.
Retrieve, analyze, evaluate, and apply (using critical thinking, problem-solving, and scientific reasoning skills) relevant scientific data, evidence-based data, and other information when solving practice problems (patient-specific and general practice) utilizing technology available at the rotation site. / · Analyze patient information to determine the presence of any of the following medication or non-medication problems related to a patient's current therapy.
1. Medication used with no medical indication
2. Medical condition(s) for which there is no prescribed therapy (medication or non-medication)
3. Medication or non-medication therapy prescribed inappropriately for a particular medical condition
4. Unnecessary therapeutic duplication
5. Medication to which the patient is allergic has been prescribed
6. Clinically significant drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-nutrient, or drug-laboratory test interactions or potential for such interactions
· Use the patient medical record to locate pertinent information to provide pharmaceutical care.
Perform systematic literature/reference searches and reviews to provide pharmacotherapy/drug information to healthcare practitioners or the lay public verbally and/or in writing. / · Complete at least 2 written drug information responses using appropriate documentation.
· Conduct any of the following as indicated by the preceptor: critical evaluation of journal article, new drug update, drug class review, formal drug literature write-up, etc.
Present a patient summary with confidence and in an organized format that includes pertinent information (includes documentation in charts and to preceptor/healthcare team). / · Prepare 2 formal SOAP notes/progress notes each week on an assigned patient.