I. Hospital orientation (Also work with the Human Resources department)
A. Discuss with students business hours, lunch, breaks, parking, emergency phone numbers, and emergency codes. Discuss professional interactions and attire.
B. Walk students through the hospital, show main pharmacy
C. Introduce students to staff
D. Security standards
II. Policies/Procedures
Discuss with students rotation policies, emphasizing what will expected of them including daily activities and responsibilities. Generally, students are expected to review charts and follow assigned or chosen patients during entire hospital admission. In addition, preceptor may elect to set up an hour each day of rotation to discuss various topics with students. It may be helpful to provide students with a list of competencies that preceptor hopes for student to achieve at the end of the rotation.
The following materials are usually given to students on the first day of rotation.
A. Syllabus
The following is a sample syllabus for internal medicine rotation:
B. Activities Checklist
It may be useful for a student to have an activities checklist that will help him/her stay on track with assigned projects and readings.
The following is a sample activities checklist that student must complete during the rotation
C. Goals and Objectives
The following is a sample list of goals and objectives that student needs to achieve during the rotation
D. Timeline/schedule
The following is a sample day-by-day schedule for the rotation
E. Weekly topic discussions and assigned readings
Preceptor elect to provide students reading materials such as articles from medical sources that will help students to prepare for topic discussions.
The following is a proposed schedule for topic discussions
F. Projects
The following is a proposed list of projects that preceptor may want student to complete
G. Grading
This is a proposed grading criteria. Grading criteria usually set by College of Pharmacy.
H. Competencies
This is a list of proposed minimum competencies that student needs to achieve at the end of the rotation
III. Monitoring form
Ask students to prepare a monitoring form that will allow them to follow patients during the course of admission.
- Examples of what can be Included on the monitoring form can be found here.