Unlike everyone else who got to practice what was taught...
May I give you some harsh feedback? I promise it is intended to help you and please accept it in the spirit in which it is given. If you would rather not receive it, simply skip over the rest of my post.
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This line reeks of playing the victim. No one here or in life is going to respect you or give you any leeway just because you think you had a greater challenge than someone else.
First of all, there is basically no chance at all that you know the experience that everyone of your classmates had on their IPPE. It is doubtful that you even spoke with every person in your class about their IPPE and the ones you did speak to might very well have not been totally forth coming with you. So no, I do not believe that "everyone but you" had a more fair IPPE.
Secondly, even if we accept the premise of your statement, what does that change? Do you think you should be given some kind of special consideration because your situation wasn't exactly the same as "everyone" else? So what? It's totally irrelevant and even bring it up makes you sound whiny.
But kudos to you for realizing there is an area for you to develop in and asking for help to do so. I hope you take our feedback and improve yourself. Self-inspection is hard (well, for me at least) and so is self-development.
As for your numbered list:
1) Pretty much no preceptor is going to expect you to know everything. If the computer system they have does not allow access to the internet you need to ask what references you may use when needed. You can suggest that you can access pubmed (or whatever you want) on your phone but respect your preceptor's instruction. Your site will have access to some kind of pharmacy reference and if that is all your preceptor wants you to use, so be it.
2) Did your preceptor object or are you regretful that the experience didn't have enough for you to do or...? Not sure why you brought this up. Personally I would have been happy for the unexpected extra study time but to each their own. Perhaps when the nurse went home you should have checked in with your preceptor about what you should do instead?
3) When you get to be on APPE (or if not then, when you get to be a pharmacist) you will see that no matter how 'slow' the pharmacy seems to you there are in fact always things you can be doing. As an IPPE student I wouldn't expect you to be able to work independently but once you are on APPEs you will be able to find things to do. It is poor of your preceptor not to have arranged something for you to work on while they were on vacation but that really is outside your control. If you knew about the vacation in advance you might have asked them what you should do while they were gone but that is about the extent of your control over that situation.
