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So I've read through quite a few threads on IPPE. I am about to start my second IPPE in a week at a rural medical center in the outpatient (retail)pharmacy. My preceptor sent me an e-mail with instructions. He mentioned that my rotation will consist of time spent in the retail portion, alternative care pharmacy, compounding lab, and home infusion pharmacy.
He also stated this:
>>"We can then meet to review your experience, (bring a resume if you have one) set your goals for the rotation, discuss what learning experiences we have to offer and set up a schedule."
So, reading through all these threads, it seems that IPPE rotations vary greatly by site with some not letting you do anything at all and others letting you jump right on in.
With that said, I have a lot of experience (since 2004)- retail, mail order, and the most experience in the inpatient pharmacy. After my last IPPE at the LTC and shadowing at Campus Health, I found out that I am a bit rusty talking to patients.
To the preceptors, do you think it would be fair to ask the preceptor if I could spend most of my time in the retail and alternative care pharmacy? How would I go about having this conversation without sounding like an idiot or a prick? I don't want to come off like I know everything because I don't, but I certainly don't want to be spending a lot of time drawing up solutions in the home infusion pharmacy or compounding meds in the compounding lab since I make IVs and do compounding at my job every weekend. I feel like the statement above gives me some leeway to ask for this. Also, this will be my first official encounter with a preceptor. At the LTC our IPPE coordinator was there at the facility but we were on our own for most of it. We didn't interact with the docs or pharmacist that worked there (just the nurses).
I am pretty nervous about this rotation because it is 2 hours away from Phoenix and 4 hours away from my house in Tucson- they are putting me up in a condo near the hospital and I will be by myself for half of my rotation because I had to move my rotation back two weeks (I would otherwise be rotating with one other P1 or P2). Not that being by myself is a problem or anything. I am highly independent and motivated. But, I don't want to be one of those interns that ends up being largely invisible.
Thoughts?
He also stated this:
>>"We can then meet to review your experience, (bring a resume if you have one) set your goals for the rotation, discuss what learning experiences we have to offer and set up a schedule."
So, reading through all these threads, it seems that IPPE rotations vary greatly by site with some not letting you do anything at all and others letting you jump right on in.
With that said, I have a lot of experience (since 2004)- retail, mail order, and the most experience in the inpatient pharmacy. After my last IPPE at the LTC and shadowing at Campus Health, I found out that I am a bit rusty talking to patients.
To the preceptors, do you think it would be fair to ask the preceptor if I could spend most of my time in the retail and alternative care pharmacy? How would I go about having this conversation without sounding like an idiot or a prick? I don't want to come off like I know everything because I don't, but I certainly don't want to be spending a lot of time drawing up solutions in the home infusion pharmacy or compounding meds in the compounding lab since I make IVs and do compounding at my job every weekend. I feel like the statement above gives me some leeway to ask for this. Also, this will be my first official encounter with a preceptor. At the LTC our IPPE coordinator was there at the facility but we were on our own for most of it. We didn't interact with the docs or pharmacist that worked there (just the nurses).
I am pretty nervous about this rotation because it is 2 hours away from Phoenix and 4 hours away from my house in Tucson- they are putting me up in a condo near the hospital and I will be by myself for half of my rotation because I had to move my rotation back two weeks (I would otherwise be rotating with one other P1 or P2). Not that being by myself is a problem or anything. I am highly independent and motivated. But, I don't want to be one of those interns that ends up being largely invisible.
Thoughts?