IPPE site restrictions

[bananaface]

Is anyone else's school not allowing them to do IPPE rotations at sites they have previously been employed?

 

[FruitFly]

Is anyone else's school not allowing them to do IPPE rotations at sites they have previously been employed?

I know some restrict it based on current employment. Restriction based on previous employment at a site is way too restrictive in some cases. There's only a handful of hospitals in certain areas, and if someone did basic work for the hospital before, he or she is now restricted from ever going back as a learning experience? Doesn't make sense doing that. I would say that with regards to community pharmacies (which usually outnumber hospital), every attempt should be made to gain experience at a different site (same chain's fine), unless there's some sort of extenuating circumstances.

 

[njac]

if at all possible they place you elsewhere.

 

[genesis09]

UIC is stricter. They say you can't go there if you ever worked in the pharmacy's department. There are exemptions. Let's say you work at a Walgreen's Pharmacy. You decide you want to do a corporate or WHI rotation with them; that is fine.

 

[The Fargoan]

If we've been paid by a pharmacy we can't do our IPPE there.

EXCEPT if you were just hired for the summer, you can do your IPPE there this summer (and they consider it ok because it's a "new" experience).

 

[WVUPharm2007]

There is a similar deal at WVU.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

Yeah, we had to list every we had ever worked so they could avoid placing us somewhere we'd been. I don't think it was much of a problem for anyone in my class.

 

[GatorRxGirl]

We can work at the same company, but not same store. Also, for us hospital people, we can do rotations at our hospital but the preceptor can't be our boss.

 

[Pianopooh]

At ACP, students cannot work at the same store for IPPE, but can work within the same chain at a different store.

 

[Hosstheboss]

At Buffalo you can't do your IPPEs in any of the chain stores you work at.