UW School of Pharmacy Experiential Newsletter
May 14, 2025
TOPICS
- Thank You!
- APPE Preceptor Excellence Award Winner – Dr. Aaron Steffenhagen
- New Experiential Portal Landing Page
- New APPE Course Activities
- New Team Readiness Survey for APPE students
- IPPE Sign Up coming in June
- APPE Sign Up coming in August
- Student Evaluations
- APPE Payment Information for spring 2025
- Update Email Address Reminder
THANK YOU
Thank you to all our instructors who mentored our students in the 2024-2025 clerkship year. We are especially appreciative for your help in submitting block 8 APPE assignments early. The Class of 2025 graduated on May 9, 2025, and will be taking their national and state exams. The students are very grateful to be able to be mentored by leading practitioners in pharmacy. For more information about our graduate outcomes, please see https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/academics/pharmd/student-outcomes/
LARRY BOH APPE PRECEPTOR EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER
Each year we ask fourth-year students to nominate a clinical instructor who exemplifies the teaching spirit of former faculty member, Professor Larry Boh. Students submit nominations based on communication skills, teaching skills, professionalism, and outstanding qualities. This year’s winner is Dr. Aaron Steffenhagen from UW Health in Madison, WI. He received the award at the May 2025 Graduation Hooding Ceremony. Congratulations!
NEW EXPERIENTIAL PORTAL LANDING PAGE
You may notice a new landing page when you log on to the experiential webpage. Our IIT department has been busy making changes with a goal of making the portal more user-friendly. Check it out and see what you think! A big thank you to our IIT department for their work on this project.
NEW COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR REQUIRED APPES
With the start of block 1 – May 19th, you will notice new course activities for the required Acute Care, Ambulatory Care, Health-System, and Community APPE rotations. Updates may be found by reviewing the course orientation videos in the Preceptor Development Center and on the course manuals. Please contact the course coordinators with any questions.
- Acute Care / Health System – Jess Bergsbaken – bergsbaken@wisc.edu
- Ambulatory Care / Community – Mara Kieser – kieser@wisc.edu
NEW TEAM-READINESS SURVEY FOR APPE STUDENTS
ACPE Standards require students to be APPE ready, practice ready and team ready. For accreditation purposes, the School of Pharmacy experiential program will be adding a two-question survey about APPE students’ team readiness longitudinally throughout the APPE year.
Within the Grading Record, you will see an item titled “Readiness Survey.” There will be practice and team ready questions to complete at the end of the APPE block. An FAQ document will be posted in the Preceptor Development Center.
IPPE YEAR 1 SIGN UP COMING IN JUNE
IPPE student sign up will be coming soon. The sign up will be for first year students completing community rotations in January 2026. We will send an email when the sign-up survey is available.
APPE SIGN UP COMING IN AUGUST
APPE student sign up will begin August 1 through August 31 for APPE rotations starting May 2026. In addition, please be sure to update your site information including pre-rotation requirements for your students. We will send a reminder email closer to the sign-up period.
For sites interested in longitudinal APPE rotations, please email Mara Kieser at mara.kieser@wisc.edu. Mara will be happy to provide information about the longitudinal experiences and expectations. Thank you for mentoring and training our students.
STUDENT EVALUATIONS
Students are required to complete an evaluation of the pharmacy site and the clinical instructor after each clerkship rotation. Student feedback is posted on the clerkship web page after each block ends. Please go to https://experiential.sop.pharmacy.wisc.edu/ Click on Intranet Log In. Enter your net ID and password. Please review your comments. It is best to look for any trends from the student comments. We hope you find this information useful. Please contact Mara Kieser at mara.kieser@wisc.edu if you have questions or concerns.
APPE PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payments for clerkships completed in the spring of 2025 will be mailed to pharmacies in June. Please note, checks are made out to the pharmacy and checks for pharmacies belonging to a corporation or large facility are sent out to the pharmacy manager/ director. Please check the web page https://experiential.sop.pharmacy.wisc.edu/ for the student(s) you had in the spring of 2025. The UW Business Office is not able to provide student names.
REMINDER TO UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Our newsletter communication is dependent upon having correct email addresses. If your address has changed, please go to https://experiential.sop.pharmacy.wisc.edu/ Click on – Intranet Login, enter your NET ID and password. Click on – change clinical instructor demographic information. Make the appropriate changes and click on submit. Thank you for keeping our database up to date!
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