How to make the best of APPE rotation?

[Folfirinox]

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Hi all! Longtime lurker here. I'm having a bit of a predicament. I am in an APPE rotation where I'm not preceptor-less, but my preceptor doesn't participate in any rounds in the hospital and is completely unfamiliar my classmate's and my patients. In addition, my preceptor doesn't focus on the topics being treated on the rotation. In addition to this, we (understandably) have to run all clinical recommendations through our preceptor (or another pharmacist on service if she is not on campus). I just want some advice to make the best of the experience, as it is frustrating to not be able to do much. I look anything I don't know up, ask questions, and try to contribute if possible, but even if we are asked a clinical question we can look up, we need to run it through our preceptor, no matter how simple.

I'm assuming the preceptor must have been burned before while precepting, and that's why there isn't much autonomy. Like I said. I just want to know what I can do to for my own learning gains during this rotation.

 

[Amicable Angora]

Just pass your rotations and get your license. Don't expect to learn much.

 

[zelman]

This is the time to learn how to sum up a patient really concisely so your preceptor can okay your recommendation without wasting too much time.

 

[owlegrad]

Read pharmacists letter or a NAPLEX study guide. What type of rotation is it? There are almost always opportunities to learn somewhere. Ask your preceptor if you spend time with a service in the hospital where you think you can learn something.

Zelmans advice is on point to. Running simple things by your preceptor should be a fairly painless process.

Good luck!

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[Folfirinox]

Read pharmacists letter or a NAPLEX study guide. What type of rotation is it? There are almost always opportunities to learn somewhere. Ask your preceptor if you spend time with a service in the hospital where you think you can learn something.

Zelmans advice is on point to. Running simple things by your preceptor should be a fairly painless process.

Good luck!

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It's acute inpatient. I think the issue is that he is so specialized that he doesn't remember many of the other disease states besides his specialty. I've been looking over NAPLEX books/learn about weird things that come up on rounds, so I will just continue to roll with it.

Thanks all!

 

[Amicable Angora]

I don't know about anyone else, but my rotations have mostly been slave labor. I feel that I have forgotten many academic things while on rotations. Any major "learning" is from myself looking things up on my own.

 

[CYP-0]

I don't know about anyone else, but my rotations have mostly been slave labor. I feel that I have forgotten many academic things while on rotations. Any major "learning" is from myself looking things up on my own.

Only applicable to my retail rotations. Then again, I guess it is a loading dose of the reality that awaits most of us in a few months, for all retail-bound graduates at least.

 

[Twentytwelve2]

Renal dose adjustments for anticoagulants and looking at labs was the most relevant knowledge from my inpatient rotation for my NAPLEX test 🙄.
AmCare is great for preparing you for the HTN,HLD,DM that you will encounter on NAPLEX and CPJE. But, it's simple to begin with- check labs, vitals->recommendation.

Rotations is mostly slave work with bits of informations that will help you on the boards.

 

[npage148]

75% of my rotations were free labor or me pushed aside to a corner. If it wasn't for DI papers maybe 1 would be considered informative and built my knowledge