UW School of Pharmacy
Clerkship Newsletter
January 23, 2025
Topics
- Save the Date – March 4, 2025 – Annual Spring Preceptor Meeting
- ACPE 2025 Accreditation Standards
- IPPE Student Match
- APPE Wellness Day – Block 7
- APPE Professional Absence Days
- UW Cyber Security Training
- Student Feedback
- Fall semester payments
- Update your information
Save the Date – March 4, 2025, Virtual Annual Spring Preceptor Meeting – Please plan to attend the following spring meeting.
Key points:
- Title: Navigating the AI Landscape: A Guide for Pharmacy Preceptors
- Date: March 4, 2025, 6:30pm-8:00pm
- More information to be sent with an RSVP link soon
Thank you for your time and contributions to the UW School of Pharmacy Experiential program.
ACPE 2025 Accreditation Standards – New ACPE Accreditation Standards go into effect on July 1, 2025. While we will not need to make major changes, you may expect some changes as we start the 2025-2026 Experiential Year. Updates will be provided in training modules on the experiential website. We will send out an email when the new training modules are available.
IPPE Student Match – Students will be signing up for IPPE rotations for the 2025-2026 clerkship year. IPPE rotations will be finalized by February 26, 2025. An email notification will be sent out when the IPPE matching is completed. Thank you for teaching and mentoring our student pharmacists!
APPE Student Wellness Day – To support APPE student wellness, students will have the opportunity select ONE day in block 7 to use as a wellness day. The hours will not be made up (we will be reducing the total number of hours by eight at the end of the rotation.) Students are expected to follow these steps.
- APPE Wellness Day Steps
- Students should pick one 8-hour day during block 7 to take as their wellness day.
- Students confirm the date with their preceptor by the end of week one in block 7.
- Once the student selects and confirms the date, no changes should be made.
- Students should document the date on the APPE hour log – 8 hours, wellness day.
- The school will deduct 8 hours from total APPE hours.
APPE Professional Absence Days. Absence for participating or attendance at professional meetings or professional job or residency interviews requires pre-approval from the site clinical instructor. Students are allotted a total of 7 Professional Days during the entire advanced APPE year. These days are only to be used for attending professional meetings or job interviews. Professional Days do not need to be made up. Travel to and from an interview is considered part of a professional day. No more than 5 days may be used in any one block. Requests for time off during the first or last weeks of the block are highly discouraged. Each student seeking absences from their site for this reason should critically examine the benefits to be gained and the risks/conflicts associated with missing the APPE experience. Clear indications for attending the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, APhA, PSW or other professional meetings include presentation of a poster or participating in the Personnel Placement Service for residencies or jobs that would begin within the following year. However, these are not the only justifiable reasons to attend. Misrepresenting professional days is considered academic misconduct.
UW Madison Cyber Security Training – Cyber Security training is required by paid and unpaid personnel using UW Madison information technology resources. This training is required to be completed every 365 days. Your due date is listed on the clerkship website when you log in. New cybersecurity training is available and may be found here. Thank you for completing this training.
Student Feedback – May be viewed on the clerkship web page. Please go to https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/experiential-education/ click on Intranet Login and enter your Net ID. Click on View my clinical instructor and my site course evaluation.
Fall 2024 Payments– Payments for APPE clerkships completed in the fall of 2024 were mailed out in January. Checks are made out to the pharmacy. In addition, checks for pharmacies belonging to a corporation or large facility are sent out to the manager/ director. Please check the web page https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/experiential-education/ for the student(s) you had in the fall of 2024. The UW Business Office is not able to provide student names.
Update your Information – Please help us keep our database up to date! Be sure to update your email information so students may contact you. Please be sure to update your site information and especially the learning environment of in-person, hybrid, remote. Thank you.
Mara A. Kieser, MS, RPh
Assistant Dean, Professor
Community Residency Program Director
HIPAA Privacy Coordinator
UW Madison, School of Pharmacy
Phone – 608-262-6168