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Course Title: Community Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience
Site Information:
Site Name
Site Address
Preceptor Information:
Name & Credentials
Phone Number
Email Address
Indicate preferred communication method
Course Purpose: The goal of the Community Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience is to provide opportunities for students to develop
professionally in the community setting and build upon knowledge and skills acquired through the first year of the didactic curriculum and
introductory community laboratory course. Students will embrace the concepts of professionalism and shared accountabilities for health
outcomes, expand drug and disease knowledge, and develop practical, critical thinking skills. This practice experience is accomplished in such
settings as chain, independent, and community clinic pharmacies that have direct patient contact. This experience will be directed and evaluated
by one or more preceptors.
Patient Population(s) Exposed To:
Specify patient populations students exposed to regularly if applicable (i.e. diverse population of adults and children)
Hours Credit: Four
Pre-Rotation Requirements for Student:
Indicate any information or documentation that the student must provide prior to starting rotation (i.e. On-site orientation, site-specific paperwork,
drug test, physical).
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this Community Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience, students should be able to:
Enter any additional objectives at the end of the list. If you feel any of the provided objectives do not apply to your site, discuss with the
Experiential Education Department.
The student who completes an introductory community practice rotation should be able to:
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1. Follow laws, professional standards and pharmacy policies when practicing in a community environment.
2. Determine a patient's eligibility for service and use references, patient profiles or professional knowledge to evaluate written or oral
prescription instructions for completeness, correctness, and therapeutic problems.
3. Check a prescription for completeness and the therapeutic appropriateness of prescriptions.
4. Extemporaneously compound prescriptions (if applicable).
5. Fill, label and file prescriptions correctly.
6. Perform calculations correctly to compound, dispense, and administer medications.
7. Dispense prescriptions and advise patients on dosage, side effects and other problems that could be anticipated with their therapy.
8. Communicate with patients or their representatives effectively.
9. Counsel patients (or their representatives) for each medication in patients' drug regimen:
10. Conduct patient interviews to obtain patient information upon receival of new or refilled prescriptions.
11. Respond to drug information inquiries from patients and other healthcare professionals.
12. Exhibit knowledge of OTC items and surgical devices, which is sufficient to assist patients in selecting and/or using these items.
13. Exhibit knowledge of health aid devices.
14. Perform basic administrative and management functions associated with a community pharmacy operation.
15. Perform all actions necessary to receive payment from third party payers.
16. Possess basic management and administrative skills.
17. Provide point-of-care and patient-centered services (student may shadow the following activities):
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18. Document interventions in patient records according to site-specific policies.
19. Utilize professional knowledge and judgment to analyze and solve typical and atypical practice problems encountered in daily
pharmacy practice.
20. Interact with other healthcare professionals encountered on a daily basis in the community setting.
21. Add any additional objective(s) that students will complete that specifically pertain to your rotation.
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills:
Students must have successfully completed SCCP 670: Pharmacy Skill Lab II: Introduction to Community Pharmacy and SCCP 671: Pharmacy
Skills Lab I: Compounding and Applied Pharmaceutics and have, at minimum, professional year one standing. List specific items that students
should be knowledgeable about prior to starting your rotation such as disease states, relevant laws and regulations.
Attendance Requirements: Students are expected to abide by the attendance requirements set forth in the SCCP Community IPPE Experiential
Manual. Requirements are located at:
https://www.sccp.sc.edu/programs/experiential/forms/General/IPPE%20Introductory%20Community%20Experiential%20Manual.pdf
Dress Code Requirements: Students are expected to abide by the dress code requirements found in the SCCP Academic Bulletin and SCCP
APPE Experiential Manual. List any site-specific dress code requirements here.
Academic Integrity: Students are expected to abide by the academic integrity policy found in the SCCP Academic Bulletin. MUSC and USC
university-specific policies may apply where necessary.
Site-Specific Requirements:
List any parking requirements or other site-specific rules that students must abide by here.
Student Schedule:
 State the hours the student is expected to be on site. If applicable, indicate that the hours may not be firm, and describe situations in which
a student may need to stay after hours in order to complete tasks.
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State events or meetings inside or outside those hours that a student should attend.
If possible, provide typical daily schedule indicating when different activities or breaks may take place. Include time to meet with student
to discuss student’s performance (at minimum midpoint and final evaluations) and make recommendations for improvement.
Consider constructing a calendar of dates/times to discuss specific topics, have journal club meetings, or other assignment discussions.
Determining in advance what these will be allows the student to be prepared.
Grading Procedures:
Grading will occur via electronic IPPE evaluations on E-Value. Students will receive a grade at midpoint that does not count towards the final
grade on a transcript. The grade received at midpoint evaluation will be utilized for student self-reflection and to set goals for the second
remaining half of the rotation. Students will receive a final grade of Pass or Fail on the last day of the APPE that will be transferred to the
student’s transcript. Grading occurs via an automatic calculation present in electronic evaluations in E-Value.
Grading Scale:
Pass: 70 – 100
Fail: 0 - 69.99
Assignments/Activities:
Learning Objective
Follow laws, professional standards
and pharmacy policies when
practicing in a community
Example Components/Activities of Learning
Objective
(delete this column after moving
components/activities you will utilize to
column to the right)
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Discuss federal laws regarding controlled
substances and misbranding
Discuss state laws and regulations regarding
Required
Activities/Assignments
(The following
assignments/activities will be
used to introduce, practice, and/or
assess the particular outcome)
(fill in any example components
from column to the left that will
use as well as additional
assignments/activities you will
use)
Mapped Evaluation
Competency
(The following competency being
measured is based on the evaluation
assigned to this rotation)
(select one or more
competencies on your
respective evaluation – all
competencies should have
related objectives/activities)
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with the information that is specific to your rotation, then delete this header text and the highlighted instructions for your final
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environment.
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community pharmacy operations
Discuss state laws and regulations regarding
the sale of OTC schedule substances
Discuss state laws and regulations regarding
the sale of needles and syringes
Discuss state laws and regulations regarding
the sale of poisons
Determine a patient's eligibility for
service and use references, patient
profiles or professional knowledge to
evaluate written or oral prescription
instructions for completeness,
correctness, and therapeutic problems.
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Determine a patient's eligibility for services
by properly checking:
1) third party authorization cards when
needed
2) other identification cards as appropriate
3) patient profiles when needed
Check a prescription for completeness
and the therapeutic appropriateness of
prescriptions.
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Ensure patients' names and addresses are
correctly and legibly on the prescriptions
Ensuring drug names, strengths, dosage
forms, and units are legible & complete
Ensuring the directions to the patients are
legible and complete
Ensuring that prescriptions are properly
signed in accordance with state laws
Correctly interpreting physicians' names
from their signatures
Correctly verifying that the medication is in
stock
Correctly verifying the DEA number of the
physician if necessary
Clarifying or obtaining needed information
from the patient
Clarifying or obtaining needed information
from the prescriber
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Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance
communication with students and meet objectives established by SCCP and our accrediting body, ACPE. Address the highlighted text
with the information that is specific to your rotation, then delete this header text and the highlighted instructions for your final
syllabus.
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Extemporaneously compound
prescriptions (if applicable).
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Fill, label and file prescriptions.
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Use needed references to clarify questions
Verify doses as being safe and non toxic
Verify doses as being practical to measure
and administer
Select correct patient profiles for review
Use patient profiles to determine if specific
brands were previously used
Use patient profiles to identify any drug
duplication
Use patient profiles to identify any possible
drug incompatibilities
Use patient profiles to verify authorized
refills
Clarify therapeutic questions with patients if
possible
Clarify therapeutic questions with prescriber
if necessary
Select the appropriate equipment
Properly clean the equipment before and
after compounding.
Select the appropriate ingredients.
Check the ingredients and discard any
showing signs of deterioration.
Calculate the amounts of ingredients to use.
Correctly measure or weigh the ingredients.
Combine the ingredients in proper sequence.
Perform the steps needed to produce a
pharmaceutically elegant product.
Properly package the final product.
Correctly note all calculations or special
instructions on the prescription.
Create and update patient profiles
Select the proper ingredients
Substitute generically where permitted or
Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance
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with the information that is specific to your rotation, then delete this header text and the highlighted instructions for your final
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Perform calculations correctly to
compound, dispense, and administer
medications.
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Dispense prescriptions and advise
patients on dosage, side effects and
other problems that could be
anticipated with their therapy.
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Communicate with patients or their
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indicated
Use or maintain automated dispensing
equipment
Dispense proper quantities of drugs based on
basic dosing principles
Identify brand drugs with their
manufacturers
Find medications on the stock shelves
Price prescriptions
Bill third parties for pharmacy services
Record medication information in patient
profiles
Record refill information in patient profiles
Identify and properly annotate prescriptions
in various schedules
Prepare labels that are legally correct
Prepare labels that are professionally elegant
Select and attach proper auxiliary labels
where indicated
File prescriptions for schedule substances
Check filled prescriptions for accuracy and
completeness
Complete at least 1 calculation for a
compounded medication.
Complete at least 1 calculation for an oral
medication.
Complete at least 1 calculation used to
administer a certain dose of a medication.
Counsel a minimum of 1 patient each day on
their new medication.
Greet patients in a pleasant and concerned
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representatives effectively.
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Counsel patients (or their
representatives) for each medication
in patients' drug regimen:
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manner
Communicate at the patient's level of
understanding (level of literacy)
Use professional knowledge to answer
questions concerning drug therapy
Use appropriate references to answer
questions concerning drug therapy
Interpret and evaluate information that
patients provide in regards to drug therapy
Triage patients according to need for selftreatment or referral to physician office
Perform basic physical assessments to
determine severity of condition
Counsel on the following:
1) Trade, generic, common or descriptive
names for drugs intended use and
expected action
2) Routes, dosage forms, dosages, and
administration schedules
3) Special directions for preparation
4) Special directions for administration
5) Precautions to be observed during
administration
6) Expected side effects and methods to
avoid them
7) Techniques for self-monitoring therapy
8) Proper storage
9) Potential drug/drug or drug/food
interactions or other contraindications
10) Refill information
11) Actions to be taken in the event of a
missed dose
12) Any information peculiar to the drug or
patients' condition
Identify at least 1 patient whose literacy or
Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance
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Conduct patient interviews to obtain
patient information upon receipt of
new or refilled prescriptions.
Respond to drug information inquiries
from patients and other healthcare
professionals.
Exhibit knowledge of OTC items and
surgical devices, which is sufficient to
assist patients in selecting and/or
using these items.
lingual skills limit the understanding of
normal counseling.
 Identify at least 2 patients who are not
compliant with their standing medications.
 Obtain information from a patient about:
1) Drug allergies
2) Concurrent medications
3) Any OTC or herbal medicines being
used
4) Family and personal health history
5) Lifestyle activities that may affect
health, pharmacotherapy, and/or disease
state management
6) Compliance of medication directions
7) Create 4 new patient profiles.
8) Update 4 existing patient profiles.
 Complete 2 written drug information
responses (actual or simulated by preceptor)
from healthcare professionals using
appropriate resources.
 Complete 2 written drug information
responses (actual or simulated by preceptor)
from patients.
 Assist 1 patient each week in selecting OTC
products by:
1) the therapeutic class of the product
2) questions to ask patients before any
product in this
class is recommended
3) questions to ask patients before this
specific product
is recommended
4) the ingredients in the product
5) the composition of the product
Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance
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Exhibit knowledge of health aid
devices.
Perform basic administrative and
management functions associated
with a community pharmacy
operation.
compared to other
products in the therapeutic class
6) the recommended daily dose of the
product
7) the cost effectiveness of using the
product compared
to other products in the class
8) the common side effects associated with
the product
9) the expected side effects of the product
compared to
other products in the class
10) the warnings or cautions that should be
given to a
patient
11) the overdose or abuse potential of the
product
 Determine for 8 devices during the rotation:
1) how the appropriate device or aid for a
patient can be determined
2) how the device is accurately measured or
fitted
3) the directions for using a device
4) precautions with or limitations of the
device
5) proper storage and care for the device
6) the differences between differently
priced devices of the same type
 Differentiate between items to be ordered
direct or through a wholesaler
 Determine quantities of items to be ordered
 Place a pharmacy order for prescription and
OTC items
 Place an order for schedule III through V
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Perform all actions necessary to
receive payment from third party
payers.
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Possess basic management and
administrative skills.
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controlled substances
Place an order for schedule II controlled
substances
Check in prescription and OTC drug items
Check in schedule III through V controlled
substances
Check in schedule II controlled substances
Properly file receipts for all scheduled
substances
Properly rotate and store all stock checked in
Receive manufacturers' or wholesalers'
authorization to return goods
Return goods to manufacturers or
wholesalers
Discuss all actions needed to receive
payment on MEDICAID prescription
Discuss all actions needed to receive
payment from other third party plans
Discuss credit statements from MEDICAID
Discuss resolution of credit statements from
other third party payers
Discuss and understand mechanisms of
payments for all plans
Assist in opening the pharmacy operation
Bill for customer charges
Credit for customer charge payments
Set up a delivery schedule for drugs
Perform or discuss clearing and resolving
cash register readings
Assist in closing the pharmacy
Discuss basic overhead costs associated with
pharmacy operations
Discuss methods of fixing prescription
charges
Syllabus Template for Preceptors: This template document is intended to assist you in constructing a rotation syllabus to enhance
communication with students and meet objectives established by SCCP and our accrediting body, ACPE. Address the highlighted text
with the information that is specific to your rotation, then delete this header text and the highlighted instructions for your final
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Provide point-of-care and patientcentered services (student may
shadow):
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Document interventions in patient
records according to site-specific
policies.
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Utilize professional knowledge and
judgment to analyze and solve typical
and atypical practice problems
encountered in daily pharmacy
practice.
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Interact with other healthcare
professionals encountered on a daily
basis in the community setting.
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Shadow a pharmacist completing MTM
Shadow a pharmacist administering vaccines
Shadow a pharmacist completing point-ofcare testing (i.e. glucose or cholesterol
testing)
Participate in any educational offerings
designed to benefit the health of the general
public (Flu Clinic, Health Fair, etc)
Complete 1 documentation each week in a
patient’s chart for an intervention or
observation that is important for follow-up.
Complete or observe the triage and/or
referral of 4 patients seeking self-care from a
pharmacist.
Present 2 patient cases in an organized
format to pharmacist and/or staff.
Present 1 patient each week to the preceptor
whose patient-specific factors (i.e. financial
state, family history, cultural values of
seeking medical help) affect their health,
disease state management, and
pharmacotherapy.
Properly receive prescription or refill
information from a prescriber by phone
Properly receive prescription or refill
information from a patient by phone
Properly document telephoned prescriptions
or information
Complete 5 nurses calls per week for
prescription refills
Complete or observe1 physician call for drug
interactions, alternate therapy
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Enter additional objectives here
recommendation, or drug allergy
 Utilize appropriate medical terminology
when speaking to healthcare professional
 Discuss methods to aid pharmacy
technicians in the efficient delivery of
pharmacy services
Enter corresponding activities here