University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
PHR 928:  Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience I (IPPE I)

What is the same?

• It is a one month rotation, this year the course runs from May 6 until June 3.
• The purpose and course outcomes.
• Your role as a mentor and a coach.
• The type of assignments.
• Student required work hours (75% or 30 hours per week in direct patient care and dispensing and 25% or 10 hours per week working on assignments - since computer access and work space may be limited in your pharmacy, it is acceptable for the student to work on assignments at home.)
• The expectation of students to be professional and maintain HIPAA compliance.
• The course is still graded pass/fail.
• The Patient Care Project Proposal to improve patient care at your pharmacy - got a project that you just haven't had time to research and complete?

What has changed?

• EPPE (Early Pharmacy Practice Experience) is now called IPPE I (Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience I.)
• Mix of community and hospital sites has changed to all community pharmacy sites.  After their PY2 year, all students will have a one month rotation in a hospital pharmacy.
• Paper evaluations have changed to on-line in the PEMS (Pharmacy Education Management System.)  More on this change can be found in the free 1-hour continuing education course at  http://cbf.cecentral.com/activity/2022  I recommend that you complete this CE program, because it will make logging in and completing the student evaluation much easier.
• There are specific discussion topics for you to review with the student, so you may want to plan some time to spend one-on-one with the student.
• There is a revised weekly schedule of activities to help the student stay on track with their assignments.
• Students will spend less time on written assignments and more time on the Blackboard course site blogging and communicating with other students in their class.

What is new?

• Use of PEMS for student evaluations.
• A structured midpoint evaluation to be conducted at the end of the second week or beginning of the third week to be discussed with the student and documented in PEMS.
• A new final evaluation form in PEMS that focuses on aspects of prescription dispensing, your observation of a student patient counseling session, a check-off form to grade the Patient Care Project Proposal, and a section to attest to having specific topic discussions with the student.
• In the Appendix of the IPPE I Manual, a description of the PY1 curriculum is given so that you can be aware of the educational background that your student has.  

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Comments to Mike Richardson, Last Modified: April 17, 2009
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