Elective Pharmacy Practice Clerkship (728-760)
1-6 Credits
This course is a continuation of the PharmD student’s experiential course work. It builds on prior didactic course work in: drug literature evaluation, introductory clerkships, pharmacy law and ethics, nonprescription products, and the pharmacotherapy course sequence.
Specific student activities are guided by site-specific course objectives, professional competencies and outcome expectations set by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Accreditation Standards and Key Elements for the Professional Program in Pharmacy Leader to the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (“Standards 2016”) approved January 25, 2015 and released February 2, 2015 in conjunction with the UW-Madison Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Program Educational Outcomes approved June 8, 2015.
- Students are expected to be integrated into and participate in advanced pharmacy practice activities appropriate to the specific site under the supervision of a clinical instructor/preceptor.
- Students will become progressively independent in their activities as they complete more clerkships.
- This course is designed to foster student development of professional independence, keeping in mind that all student activities will be appropriately supervised by the site instructor.
- Students will further develop their written and verbal communication skills working with patients and health care professionals, as appropriate.
- Course activities include but are not limited to: direct patient care, drug information, guideline and policy development, administrative support, and teaching.
The Elective Advanced Pharmacy Practice Clerkship includes rotation sites where students perform both direct and indirect patient care activities. The Pharmacists Patient Care Process (PPCP) may be applied to both types of activities. A student completing a rotation focused on direct patient care will perform all aspects of the PPCP. Examples include COLLECTing medication histories and physical assessment findings; ASSESSing medication problems and determining if health goals are met; designing PLANs to optimize medication therapy; IMPLEMENTing the care plan and providing education; MONITORing clinical endpoints; and DOCUMENTing in electronic health records.
Students completing rotations focused on indirect patient care (such as managed care, administrative, or teaching rotations) will also have opportunities to apply PPCP. Examples include COLLECTing electronic or health insurance records; ASSESSing error reports for trends, drug cost use, or aggregate student performance data; PLANning at the classroom, system, or population level; use of IMPLEMENTation strategies; MONITORing the strategy or intervention; and DOCUMENTing via memos or reports.
