I. Student Experience – striving for our students to:
- Provide effective and safe direct patient care through evidence-based medicine
- To deliver culturally-safe care with compassion and empathy
- Gain confidence in clinical decision-making and a broad perspective on all aspects that influence health outcomes
- Experience a variety of practice settings
- Accept responsibility and accountability for the patient care they provide
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with other health care providers
- Document patient care contributions
- Participate in peer learning and mentoring
II. Practice Educator Experience - striving for our practice educators (PEs) to:
- Feel valued through meaningful acknowledgement and recognition
- Have access to practice educator training and development through multiple delivery options
- Provide and receive regular constructive feedback
- Feel engaged with and supported by the Faculty
- Utilize a range of preceptorship models within various practice settings
III. Experiential Education Sites - striving for our sites to:
- Actively encourage and exhibit high quality patient-centered care and best practices
- Demonstrate a commitment to education and an interest in engaging with students
- See value in hosting students
- Allow for a diverse and robust range of learning experiences
- Provide interprofessional collaborative learning environments
- Have students play an active role within the health care team
IV. Program Advancement - striving for our program to:
- To provide leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning and contribute to the research and innovation in experiential education
- Engage in high quality, effective and efficient educational practices that are research-informed and evidence-based
- Support and enable teaching and learning excellence, encouraging practice educators and sites to participate in evaluation and scholarship initiatives
- Create connections and foster collaborative relationships with students and stakeholders
- Recruit a variety of innovative practice sites and experiential education opportunities for our students
- Have a quality assurance process to ensure Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP) accreditation standards and Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) educational outcomes are met