PHRD-700: Advanced Pharmacy Practice Ambulatory Care

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE): Students must successfully complete all didactic coursework and IPPE prior to participation in APPE. This rotation is a structured, full-time, 5-week patient care experience in ambulatory care. It is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop and refine the skills necessary to deliver pharmaceutical care, with an emphasis on rational drug therapy and outcomes, to an ambulatory care patient population. Students will apply their didactic knowledge to various therapeutic issues and disease states encountered in clinical practice. Emphasis will be placed on problem-solving, critical thinking, and basic clinical skills such as patient counseling, obtaining medication histories, drug information retrieval and evaluation, and drug therapy monitoring. Interaction and communication with other health care professionals for the promotion of optimal drug therapy are stressed to help the student develop a sound professional approach to the practice to pharmacy. In addition, students are encouraged to boraden their existing competencies and incorporate their professional and personal goals into this rotation. [ 5 credits ]