Placement Provider Resources
For 2nd-Year Supervisors | |
2nd-Year Supervisor Handbook 2024-25 | This handbook has been developed to help Supervisor’s to prepare for their student’s placement and for reference during the placement. |
Supervisor’s Report 2025 | The purpose of this Report is to summarise the student’s conduct and professionalism during placement, and to confirm the student completed their learning activities in a safe manner. |
APPEL-2nd-Year-Induction | This document has been developed to support students and Supervisors during their experiential learning placements. |
For 4th-Year Preceptors | |
4th-Year Preceptor Handbook 2025-26 | This handbook has been developed to help Senior Preceptors to prepare for their student’s placement and for reference during the placement. |
4th-Year-Induction-and-Training-Plan-2024 | This document has been developed to support students during their experiential learning placements. |
APPEL Guide to Supporting a Hybrid Experiential Learning Placement | Guidance for Preceptors facilitating an experiential learning placement running in a hybrid manner. |
4th Year Competency Assessment Guide 2024 | Guidance on the 4th-Year Competency Assessment Process. |
For 5th-Year Senior Preceptors | |
5th-Year Senior Preceptor Handbook 24-25 | This handbook has been developed to help Senior Preceptors to prepare for their student’s placement and for reference during the placement. |
5th Year Induction and Training Plan 2024-25 | This document has been developed to support Senior Preceptors in the delivery of experiential learning placements. |
Placement Information | |
APPEL Programme Information – REP and Industry Placements | Information for pharmacists/organisation on providing student placements in industry and role-emerging practice settings. |
APPEL Programme Information – Community Placements | Information for pharmacists/organisation on providing student placements in community pharmacy settings. |
APPEL Programme Information – Hospital Placements | Information for pharmacists/organisation on providing student placements in hospital pharmacy settings. |
Resources For All Training Establishments/Trainers | |
Standards for APPEL Experiential Learning Placements |
These are the minimum standards that the Schools of Pharmacy expect to be in place by Trainers and Training Establishments when providing APPEL-accredited experiential learning placements.
You can read more about the Standards here.
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Sample CPD Cycle Book | APPEL has developed sample CPD cycles based on some feedback that pharmacists shared regarding their experiences of supervising students. These cycles are intended to illustrate how pharmacists can incorporate their own experiences of supervising students into their own professional learning journeys. |
APPEL Policy on Open Disclosure Implementation | This policy seeks to lay out how APPEL addresses its obligations in relation to the National Open Disclosure Framework. |
Perspectives on Placement | |
A Preceptor’s Perspective | In the Sept 2019 issue of Irish Pharmacist magazine, a pharmacist shared their experience of supporting a 4th-year pharmacy student on an experiential learning placement. |