The Office of Experiential Education handles the rotations for the School of Pharmacy students.

Wingate University School of Pharmacy students are immersed in hands-on learning experiences with our clinical partners beginning in their first year and throughout their course of study.

If you have questions about the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) or the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience(APPE), please contact Christy Inge in the Office of Experiential Education.

The Wingate University School of Pharmacy's IPE thread provides a flexible educational series composed of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities which allows students to learn about, from, and with other health professions students to prepare pharmacy students for interprofessional practice. 

The IPE thread offers a mixture of events in live and virtual formats, taking advantage of partnerships between the School of Pharmacy, other health science programs at Wingate University, and external stakeholders. All IPE events will focus on various levels of four main interprofessional core competencies: roles/responsibilities, values/ethics, communication, and teamwork. Students will participate in multiple IPE events throughout their didactic years to achieve the IPE thread objectives. Students will be able to further practice their interprofessional collaboration skills throughout their experiential rotations by working with various healthcare team members in different rotation settings to provide patient care. 

Interprofessional Education Objectives:

1. Identify the importance of interprofessional practice. 
2. Discuss the roles/responsibilities of a pharmacist with other healthcare professions. 
3. Recognize the roles/responsibilities of various other professions in providing patient care.
4. Demonstrate appropriate communication and professional behaviors when working with a healthcare team. 
5. Collaborate effectively with other members of the healthcare team.  

Purpose

The Wingate University School of Pharmacy’s program entails a complete commitment to student learning – learning not only within the required course work, but extended alongside and outside of the curriculum. This co-curricular approach, the Wingate-Plus Program, features special programming designed to address the following objectives:

1. To foster student personal development.
2. To develop students professionally to function as a highly effective practitioner.
3. To enhance the students’ role in community engagement and service.
4. To expose students to authentic experiences that advance cultural sensitivity. 

The co-curricular programming is essential to strengthen the development of the whole student with the skills necessary to succeed as a pharmacist.  Co-curricular programming includes a variety of required and optional opportunities.  Students have some flexibility in programming selections while also being required to reach outside of their own personal comfort zones.  The purpose of such an approach is to encourage a growth mindset and continual lifelong learning in all WUSOP students.  Fulfilling all requirements of the co-curriculum prior to the next academic year is required for progression. Failing to complete co-curricular requirements by the end of each academic year will result in referral to the Professional Conduct Review Board.

Overview

Wingate-Plus is an outcome-based plan aligned with the WUSOP program level outcomes (PLOs) and the CAPE affective domains of learning.  This approach allows for longitudinal tracking of outcomes both programmatically and at the individual student level. The plan is organized into four main categories: personal development, professionalism, community engagement and service, and cultural sensitivity.