Learn from experience.
Pharmacy Practice Experience Programs (PPEPs) are a core component of the College of Pharmacy's educational plan. These experiential based programs span seven semesters, beginning in the second semester of the first professional year. These programs are tiered as Early, Intermediate, and Advanced experiences. The overarching goal of the PPEPs is to provide our students exposure to a broad range of patient and inter-professional groups within different practice environments that are representative of contemporary pharmacist-provided patient care.
Our Pharmacy Practice Experience Programs (PPEPs) are delivered in collaboration with and through our pool of full-time Practice Faculty, Affiliate Faculty, and Pharmacy mentors (collectively referred to as Experiential Education Faculty). PPEPs help our students develop knowledge from experience as well as to use knowledge to gain experience. Creating this fundamental link between practice and knowledge helps to build core competencies plus, instill values and attitudes essential to providing patient care in the pharmacy setting. This form of Experiential Education provides our students with the fundamental skills to prepare them for careers in healthcare administration, public policy and other areas of the healthcare arena and the profession of pharmacy. The College of Pharmacy coordinates APPE and IPPE opportunities for students at locations in Tennessee and across the United States within regulatory guidelines developed by each state. International opportunities are also available.
Practice Faculty Locations
Practice faculty divide their time between the classroom at Belmont and their community sites where they teach student pharmacists through their professional practice.
Tracy Frame, PharmD, BCACPClinical Pharmacist at The Next DoorLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreThe Next Door is a non-profit organization that helps women in crisis. They provide services to women impacted by addiction, mental illness, trauma and/or incarceration. Students that rotate at The Next Door assist on the medical team by working with patients in both the detoxification and residential units. Students work with Dr. Frame and the nurse practitioners on site by assessing patients’ health conditions and problems that are occurring, monitoring and adjusting therapeutic plans as needed and providing patient education classes. It can be difficult to see women in such mental, physical and spiritual pain, but is also rewarding to see them work towards recovery and be a part of their journey!
Montgomery Green, PharmD, BCPSInternal Medicine/Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist at Williamson Medical CenterLocation: Franklin, TennesseeLearn MoreWilliamson Medical Center is a small hospital with a community feel. I work primarily with the hospitalist physicians as their internal medicine pharmacist reviewing patient charts, discussing medication therapy plans with physicians, and following up with patient outcomes. I also serve as the pharmacy chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, a multidisciplinary team with physicians, other pharmacists, nurses and microbiology, patient safety and IT specialists. We work together to ensure that antimicrobials are used appropriately and only when necessary to combat the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance. I also serve as a preceptor for several of the PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency rotations at WMC. APPE students are involved in all aspects of my practice when on rotation. They review patients and discuss recommendations with hospitalist physicians, attend and present at Antimicrobial Stewardship meetings, interact with residents, and complete admission medication histories for patients being admitted to the hospital. WMC is a great place to see all aspects of an institutional pharmacy.
Elisa Greene, PharmD, BCACPClinical Pharmacist at Siloam HealthLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreSiloam is a non-profit faith based family medicine clinic aiming to provide whole-person care to patients without insurance. We serve people from over 80 different homelands and language groups, so students gain diverse cultural and medical exposures while working with an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, behavioral health consultants, social workers, pastors, and many others. Among other things, while on this rotation students gain experience managing chronic medical conditions, identifying foreign medications, finding affordable and sustainable medication options, researching physician questions, working across language and cultural barriers, and educating both patients and the clinical staff on topics of interest. More information about Siloam is available online.
Lindsay Hahn, PharmD, BCPSInternal Medicine Pharmacist at Saint Thomas West HospitalLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreI work at a community based-hospital where I round with the Internal Medicine teaching team. We round with physicians, medical residents, and medical interns and provide pharmaceutic care services to the team. These services can include medication/treatment selection, medication dosing, medication monitoring, medication reconciliation, drug information, order entry/verification, and patient counseling.
Phillip H. Lee, PharmD, BCPSClinical Pharmacist for Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical CenterLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreAt Vanderbilt I work to support Internal Medicine physicians as they take care of hospitalized patients. I help them by reviewing current medication therapy, making medication therapy recommendations, dosing medications, answering drug information questions and counseling patients. Most of my day is spent seeing patients, writing notes in the medical record and researching different drug therapy topics.
Michael McGuire, PharmDClinical Pharmacist at Rolling Hills HospitalLocation: Franklin, TennesseeLearn MoreRolling Hills is a 120 bed behavioral health facility that provides both inpatient and outpatient services to patients with psychiatric disorders as well as substance use disorders. I see patients with Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and other psychiatric conditions. As a clinical pharmacist at Rolling Hills, I attend treatment team with psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers. I am responsible for monitoring the drug therapy for the patients in the hospital and for providing patient education to patients in the hospital and in patients in the outpatient program. Students greatly enjoy my practice site because they get a significant amount of direct contact with patients and are incorporated into the treatment team.
Marilyn Odom, PhD, BSFaculty Research LabsLearn MoreMy lab focuses on understanding cellular pathways involved in breast cancer progression. My current research investigates the mechanism by which a drug currently in Phase II/III clinical trials kills triple negative breast cancer cells. Understanding this could yield other pharmacologic targets. Students can volunteer to work in the lab during the summer or choose to complete a research APPE elective with me. The goal is for the student to gain research experience in basic medical science, but the bigger picture is for the student to gain an understanding of the concept of bench-to-bedside.
Adam Pace, PharmDPharmacy Manager at Belmont University PharmacyLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreBelmont Pharmacy provides pharmacy students a unique opportunity to learn while serving their fellow students. We are located in McWhorter Hall, the same building where the College of Pharmacy is housed. Undergraduate students, faculty and staff all benefit from the care provided by our staff and students.
Steven Stodghill, PPhD, BSNashville Zoo at GrassmereLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreWe assist the veterinary staff at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere in conducting pharmacokinetic studies involving exotic animal species. The veterinarians often use medications that have been studied in domestic animals but little or no information is available regarding their use in the exotic species commonly found in zoos. The research is focused in two major areas. The first is in the development of the extraction and analytical procedures needed to quantify the analyte of interest from various matrices (e.g. blood, plasma, urine, feces). The second focus is in the modeling and interpretation of the data to provide important pharmacokinetic parameters for the analyte to assist the veterinary staff in safe and effective dosing for that species of animal. When possible, we will also use this data in an attempt to predict how a change in species will result in the need to alter dosing parameters. In order to register for this rotation, students must have completed the Veterinary Pharmacy elective taught during the Fall semester. During this elective, students apply for the rotation and are selected on a competitive basis.
Kristy Wahaib, PharmD, BCPSInternal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist at Vanderbilt University Medical CenterLocation: Nashville, TennesseeLearn MoreMy practice site is at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. While there, my students and I round with teams taking care of adult patients on the Internal (general) Medicine service. Teams consist of physicians, medical residents, and medical students. Our therapeutic recommendations and patient education efforts are highly valued and we are considered an integral part of this service.
- Information for Present and Future Preceptors
- Affiliate Faculty Library Resources are available through the Lila D. Bunch Library
- RxPreceptor provides students with information on rotation experiences and what each site and faculty member offers. It is the program responsible for assigning students to rotations based on faculty availability and student preference.
- The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy provides useful information pertaining to licensure in the state of Tennessee. All students and experiential education faculty are expected to be familiar with the Tennessee state requirements for obtaining a pharmacist license.
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We'd love to discuss the benefits of being an Affiliate Faculty member with you. To apply for a preceptor position, please complete our Preceptor Application using belmontpreceptor as the sign-up code.
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