Mission
The mission of the Experiential Department is to provide progressively high quality experiential rotations allowing students to utilize their pharmacy education in the various practice settings in the real world. Students will develop skills in several areas to improve patient based health care including: application, problem solving, interprofessional collaboration, patient education, and promoting health. Students will develop into beginner patient centered care practitioners that are practice ready. Experiential sites will also be nurtured utilizing preceptor orientation and development programs.
This will be accomplished by:
Providing introductory pharmacy practice experiences for students in community, institutional and unique practice settings.
Providing advanced pharmacy practice experiences for students in community, ambulatory care, general medicine, hospital/health system and other patient centered care as well as limited non-patient care rotations.
Developing preceptor skills for managing student experiences.
Providing students valuable and timely feedback while on rotations to guide their learning experience.
Engaging students with interprofessional experiences to provide patient-centered care and manage population health.
Providing students, the opportunity to develop ownership of their own learning through reflections and self-evaluation.
Providing quality assignments to engage students while on rotations to develop their practice skill sets and use of evidence based medicine.
Developing student decision making skills that positively impact patient outcomes.
Department Goals
The department of experiential education has three goals for developing students to be patient centered care practitioners who are contemporary practice ready at the entry level.
Research & Scholarship
- Develop an environment that fosters best practices research and scholarship in experiential education by:
- Publishing posters at state or national meetings
- Publishing articles in peer review journals
- Providing ACPE continuing education to the preceptor community
- Attempting to secure extramural funding to support practice or experiential research and activities
Service
The department will demonstrate a spirit of service to the College of Pharmacy, The University of Findlay, the community and the profession of pharmacy by:
- Serving on college and university committees
- Actively participating as members or leaders in professional organizations
- Serving as mentors for experiential programs
- Engaging in outreach activities to improve health, wellness, and population health in the community at-large
Experiential Learning/Teaching
To provide structured pharmacy experiences in diverse pharmacy practice setting each year that correlates to the curriculum to reinforce student learning by:
- Defining experiential course experiences key components of each practice area for and standardizing learning
- Providing a unique mentorship program to students during their first professional year
- Providing curriculum appropriate experiences meeting all ACPE standards for IPPEs and APPEs
- Providing patient centered diverse population student experiences developing interprofessional team dynamics, opportunity understanding various health care provider roles, and participating in a collaborative environment with health care team members.
- Collaborating with preceptors to update our curriculum program providing the most contemporary practice model
- Supporting preceptors to maintain good precepting and practice skills
- Instilling professionalism, self-awareness, leadership and innovation into the student experience