CORE_ELMS is a comprehensive web-based system implemented to facilitate the management of all aspects of the Experiential Education Program. Preceptors and students will access the system, via the Internet. This allows direct access to the information server to update affiliate bio’s, view rotation assignments, complete daily logs, document interventions, complete assessment forms, and view student evaluation reports for various aspects of the rotation. No patient specific information will be entered into CORE_ELMS.

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPEs) expose students to common contemporary U.S. practice models, including interprofessional practice involving shared patient care decision-making, professional ethics and expected behaviors, and direct patient care activities. IPPEs are structured and sequenced to intentionally develop in students a clear understanding of what constitutes exemplary pharmacy practice in the U.S. prior to beginning Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs). IPPE hours are balanced between community and health-system settings. In the summers following the P1 and P2 years, students will be required to complete one-month (5 day/week, 40 hours per week) practice experiences in community and health-system settings respectively.

Students must complete both introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences as a requirement of the Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences are available in a variety of settings. Experiences vary from those with a large focus on the dispensing function, to those with little focus on the dispensing function, to those focused on aspects outside of patient care (e.g., administration, professional organizations, academia.) The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience year is designed to give the student a broad experience in a number of pharmacy practice sites and to develop further the skills and knowledge necessary to enter into a variety of pharmacy practice types as an entry-level practitioner. Such experiences include, but are not limited to academics, ambulatory care clinics, community pharmacies (chain and independent), closed-door pharmacies, home health, institutional pharmacies, intravenous infusion services, multidisciplinary acute care teams (internal medicine, critical care, pediatrics, infectious disease, cardiology, etc.) long-term care facilities as well as others.

In order to successfully complete the requirements for graduation, student must receive "credit" for the following Introductory and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences: PHRD 4050 (Introductory Community Pharmacy Experience); PHRD 5000 (Introductory Institutional Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6000 (Advanced Community Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6002 (Advanced Institutional Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6004 (Advanced Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6006 (Advanced Adult Medicine Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6008 (Advanced Specialty Pharmacy Practice Experience); PHRD 6010 (Advanced Pharmacy Practice Elective Experience I); and PHRD 6012 (Advanced Pharmacy Practice Elective II.)