Experiential education is an integral component of student learning. Working closely with our experiential partners and sites, we aim to provide students with valuable hands-on experience within a variety of practice and work settings to develop the requisite knowledge, skills and professional attributes needed upon graduation from their academic programs.
If you are passionate about sharing your knowledge and expertise and are at a site that actively encourages and exhibits high-quality patient- and/or client-centered care and best practices, we invite you to consider collaborating with us as an experiential partner. Our experiential partners are a vital link in our students' transition from theory to practice, providing guidance, supervision and invaluable opportunities for students to apply their skills and knowledge in real-world practice or work settings.
Register to be an experiential partner
What Are the Benefits?
As an experiential partner, you are taking an active role in teaching and mentoring future colleagues and leaders of our profession, preparing our students to think on their feet and develop the adaptive expertise needed to best serve patients/clients and our communities. Our students are active learners eager to apply the skills and knowledge they’ve gained in the didactic setting and are motivated to learn about the career and work opportunities available upon graduation.
There are so many benefits to being an experiential partner including:
- your influence in educating and training students to provide exemplary patient- and/or client-centered care to improve health care outcomes;
- the added value of working alongside students who are educated to enhance patient/client care and can contribute to organizational initiatives;
- enjoying the opportunity, for both yourself and your team, to learn from students, from their new knowledge, their innovative ideas and their own rich personal histories;
- developing your experience and skill as an educator and supervisor;
- attracting students to the organization by helping to create a powerful network of reputable experiential partners province-wide; and
- partnering with UBC on projects and research initiatives.
As an experiential partner, you are providing a tremendous service to our students and to the patients and/or clients within our communities. If you are a health care professional who supervises and educates Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences students either in the classroom or practice setting, you are eligible to apply for a faculty appointment. With a formal clinical faculty appointment, you will be eligible to apply for a UBCcard and Campus Wide Login (CWL), UBC's single sign-on authentication system. Your CWL will allow you to access UBC's online applications, including UBC library privileges. To apply for a clinical faculty appointment, please email phar.oee@ubc.ca. Learn more about the UBCcard here.
UBC Alumni Card
Are you an alumnus of UBC? If so, you automatically qualify for a UBC Alumni card which connects you with benefits and privileges both on and off campus. Learn more here.
Testimonials
Working with UBC Pharm Sci students as an experiential partner is a rewarding and engaging experience and can have such a positive and lasting impact on our students.
"Precepting is a two way street: you learn as much from the experience as the student learns from you."
– Michael Lam, pharmacist
"Precepting allows you to interact with engaging and energizing students to keep up to date with what's happening in pharmacy practice and research in a very time-effective manner."
– Marilynn Boyce, pharmacist
"Thanks for the experience. I feel that I'm prepared for the challenges that await me. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to learn."
– 4th-year student
"Preceptorship is an experience that I feel a professional calling to be a part of. I feel very obliged to pay it forward."
– Curtis Harder, pharmacist
"Preceptors put in so much time and effort to train and teach their students; in turn, I think a lot of students aspire to one day become great preceptors, like their mentors."
– 4th-year student
"Thanks for teaching me everything you know. I have learned a lot, and I believe the best way to give back is to use what I have learned in my practice."
– 4th-year student
Do you have further questions about being an experiential partner? Visit our registration page or email phar.oee@ubc.ca.