A PharmD student's final year is devoted entirely to on-site Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs). Students complete four required APPEs (Advanced Community, Health System, Ambulatory Care, and Internal General Medicine). They are also required to complete three elective APPEs, at least one of which must be in an area focused on direct patient-care.
APPE Block Dates for 2025-2026 Academic Year
| Start Date | End Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Block 1 | 5/12/25 | 6/20/25 |
| Block 2 | 6/23/25 | 8/01/25 |
| Block 3 | 8/04/25 | 9/12/25 |
| Block 4 | 9/15/25 | 10/24/25 |
| Block 5 | 10/27/25 | 12/05/25 |
| Block 6 | 12/29/25 | 2/06/26 |
| Block 7 | 2/9/26 | 3/20/26 |
| Block 8 | 3/23/26 | 5/01/26 |
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APPE Rotation Learning Objectives
The learning objectives for this APPE are based on Curricular Outcome and Entrustable Professional Activities developed in association with the Northwest Pharmacy Experiential Consortium (APPE 2024 Revision). The pharmacy intern will:
- Collect: Collect relevant information to understand a patient's medical/medication history, clinical status, and health/medication-related needs.
- Assess: Analyze information to determine the effects of medication therapy, identify medication-related needs, and prioritize health-related needs in the context of the patient's health goals.
- Plan: Establish patient-centered goals and create a care plan for a patient in collaboration with the patient, caregiver(s), and other health professionals that is evidence-based and cost-effective
- Implement: Implement a care plan in collaboration with the patient, caregivers, and other health professionals
- Follow-up, Monitor, and modify: Follow up, monitor, and modify a previously developed care plan as appropriate.
- Information Expertise: Apply evidence-based medicine practices to provide clinically relevant patient care
- Health Promoter: Assess factors that influence health and wellness and develop strategies to address those factors.
- Operations: Ability to integrate within daily operations and workflow of the site.
- Safety/Quality Improvement: Apply continuous improvement techniques to improve safety and quality.
- Team Interactions: Acts as a collaborative team member.
- Communication: Effectively Communicates Information verbally, non-verbally, and in written form when interacting with an individual, group, or organization
- Self-awareness: Responsible for self-awareness and ongoing personal and professional development and demonstrates commitment to development of others.
- Accountability and trust: Demonstrate actions congruent with qualities that foster accountability and trust
- Demonstrates learning: Develops, integrates, and applies knowledge and skills appropriately to situations encountered in the practice setting.
- Demonstrating Critical Thinking during the Problem-Solving Process. Critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of skillfully evaluating information and designing a creative solution that incorporates new ideas or methods, when appropriate.