Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences
Year-one IPPEs
All year-one IPPEs are in San Francisco Bay Area community pharmacy sites, where you’ll assume specific roles that support or improve patient care. Year-one IPPE site partners include:
- CVS
- Kaiser Permanente
- Safeway
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Walgreens
Year-two IPPEs
Your year-two IPPEs are designed to give you experience, over an extended period of time, in specific pharmacy service pathways that relate to general pharmacy activities, clinical activities, and/or quality improvement projects in health systems.
Examples of pharmacy service pathways include:
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Cardiology
- 48-hour discharge
- General surgery
- HIV Primary care
- Intensive care
- Neuro-spinal
- Neurosurgery
- Organ transplant
- Oral medicine clinic
- Orthopedic pre-op clinic
- Orthopedic surgery
- Pediatrics
- Quality improvement
- Transition of care
Concentrated experience
Between your first and second year, you’ll complete a concentrated immersion IPPE at one of several health system sites in California. These concentrated experiences may occur in medical centers or hospitals, including:
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
- Children’s Hospital, Oakland
- El Camino Hospital, Sunnyvale
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco
- Kaweah Health, Visalia
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fresno
- Petaluma Valley Hospital, Petaluma
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco
- UC Davis Medical Center, Davis
- UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
- UC Irvine Medical Center, Irvine
Longitudinal experience
You’ll continue your year-two IPPE (in a different service pathway) at one of several health system sites, including:
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco
- UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center