Year of Publication

2020

College

Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

Date Available

12-8-2022

Degree Name

Master of Public Administration

Committee Chair

Dr. Karen Blumenschein

Executive Summary

Experiential education programs at colleges of pharmacy are guided by standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE.) Exactly how these standards are met, however, is often determined by the individual college of pharmacy. This includes deciding how students are selected and placed on their fourth-year rotations, referred to as Advanced Pharmacy Practices Experiences, or “APPEs.” While it may seem that students who have taken elective courses focused on specialized topics, such as pediatrics or geriatrics, will perform better on related APPEs, this thought remains largely unfounded. Using four years of student data at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, bivariate statistics, independent samples t-tests, and descriptive statistics were utilized to compare student performance on APPEs between students who had taken specialized electives and those who had not.

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