During the fourth year of pharmacy school, students complete their Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences, or APPEs. The APPEs are made up if eight five-week rotations equaling 1,600 total hours.
Student Pharmacists complete rotations in Community Pharmacy, Ambulatory/Primary Care, Acute Care General Medicine, Health-System Practice, a selective rotations, and three elective rotations. Additionally, students complete Summative Experiences in preparation for the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) and Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE).
- Community Pharmacy
Advanced community pharmacy experiences provide comprehensive, evidence-based, individualized, patient-centered care to a diverse population in the outpatient setting. - Ambulatory/Primary Care Pharmacy
Ambulatory care experiences provide evidence-based, patient-centered collaborative care in the outpatient setting to meet the medication management needs of patients in the treatment of disease. - Acute Care General Medicine
Acute Care general medicine experiences provide comprehensive, evidence-based, individualized, patient-centered care to adult inpatients typically located on a general medicine floor. - Health-System Practice (HSP)
Health-system practice (advanced institutional) experiences provide comprehensive, evidence-based, individualized, patient-centered care to a diverse population in the institutional health-system setting. - Selective
Drug Information, Ambulatory Care, or Acute Care - Electives I, II and III
Elective experiences are available in all of the above listed areas and may also include rotations in the following areas: academic pharmacy, pharmacy management, nuclear pharmacy, long-term care pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, public health, research, Indian Health Services, FDA, CDC, and international experiences.
For more information, visit the Experiential Learning curriculum page.