Your practice experiences are an important part of your pharmacy education, where you put into practice what you’ve learned in the classroom and the lab, and where you get to experience what it is to be a pharmacist and the different setting and capacities in which you might use your PharmD degree.
What sets us apart:
TCOP is unique in the length of advanced practice experiences you can get – 54 weeks– giving you more hands-on experience than other pharmacy schools 36 weeks.
Not only do you have the opportunity to have more practice experience than other schools, but some of the practice experiences offered are unique as well, such as:
- The core experience in Sterile Compounding will prepare you well for the growing demand for commercial and personalized compounding services.
- In addition to practice experiences that enhance your knowledge of patient care, electives at a drug company, drug information center, or professional agencies give you the opportunity to see how medication research and development and post-development works.
How it works:
You’ll start your clinical experience early –in the first year with your Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) in a community pharmacy, and second year in a hospital setting. In the second half of your third year, and in your fourth year, you’ll have advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) –six core and three electives. Your APPE experiences might be in a hospital, drug company, corporate setting, research, pharmaceutical communications or drug development or regulations.
IPPEs are five weeks in length while APPEs six weeks in length. Our experiential sites are primarily located within the NY metropolitan area, including Long Island, NJ, and CT.
Our institutional sites include:
- Mount Sinai Health System
- Catholic Health
- Northwell Health
- The Brooklyn Hospital Center
- Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
- Episcopal Health Systems
- Bronx Care Health System
- Montefiore Health System
- HHC Hospitals
Our industry sites include:
- Pfizer
- Kyowa Kirin Pharmaceutical Development
Our chain pharmacy sites include:
- CVS
- Walgreens
- Duane Reade
- ACME Pharmacy
Our other healthcare delivery provider sites include:
- Life Specialty Solutions
- Enexia Pharmacy Group
