Experiential Pharmacy Education
The Office of Experiential Education (OEE) at the KGI School of Pharmacy oversees experiential learning which is an essential part of the PharmD curriculum. The OEE team, along with preceptors and partners in various settings, aims to provide high quality hands-on professional and patient care experiences allowing students to utilize, reinforce, and expand knowledge learned in the classroom.
The Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) occur in the first three professional years of the PharmD program. IPPEs are comprised of two rotations providing a total of 300 hours of direct pharmacy experience, in community pharmacy practice and institutional pharmacy practice.
The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) occur in the fourth professional year of the PharmD program. Students complete six immersive 6-week rotations totaling 1,440 hours of pharmacy practice experience across a range of practice areas. APPEs include advance community practice, ambulatory care, acute general medicine, institutional hospital practice, direct patient care rotations, and elective rotations in specialized areas such as critical care, infectious diseases, oncology, pediatrics, psychiatry, home infusion, transitions of care, management, and pharmaceutical industry, among others.
