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The areas of internship may include non-pharmaceutical, institutional or corporate companies that
provide pharmaceutical services, such as, PLDT, GSIS, PAL, Meralco, San Miguel, Supreme
Court, SSS, etc.
Students need to understand how they operate and what opportunity this area of pharmacy
practice offers to implement quality pharmacy services to the clients.
2. Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the institutional internship program, a pharmacy student must be able to:
3. Curricular Requirements:
4. Course Objectives:
a) Expose interns to current standards of healthcare and policy driven pharmacy practice unique
to institutional pharmacy and health systems.
b) Provide the interns the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally through
interaction with patients and other staff in the institutional pharmacy/establishment.
c) Enhance the interns’ knowledge regarding the use of drug therapy and its applicability to
clinical practice.
1. Orientation - 8 hours
Company Policies
Scope of Internship program including the Intern’s responsibilities
The Institutional Pharmacy Operations – discuss the different areas of concern
and the key responsibilities of the Pharmacist in the operation of an
Institutional Pharmacy
The system used in the operation including profiling of patients/staff from the
company
The Formulary
2. Procurement – 2 days x 8 hours/day = 16 hours (this maybe done by the Procurement and
Logistics department of the company )
3. Warehousing – 8 hours
Receiving of deliveries
Display and Storage – considers the different categories of medicines and storage
requirements
Filling of orders, if warehouse is located away from the clinic or if the warehouse
serves multiples clinics
Dispatch and Delivery of Clinic Orders
Submission of Documents to Main Pharmacy and/or to Accounting and Finance
Handling of Returns
Clinic process
Housekeeping process – this is also to orient the intern on the arrangement of the
medicines
Product familiarization – per product category
Clinic ordering process
Clinic receiving process
IT System used
Dispensing Process
Expiry of Medicines monitoring
Returns process
Medication review and reconciliation
Documentation process – Prescription recording, Reporting
Institutional Pharmacy Internship Assessment Tool :
Instruction to the Preceptor: Rate the performance of the intern based on the following scale:
Put a check on the appropriate box.
5 Excellent Always (10/10) performs within expectations
4 Very good Almost always (8-9/10) performs within expectations
3 Good Frequently performs (5-7/10) within expectations and requires minimum
guidance and supervision
2 Fair Sometimes performs (3-4/10) within expectations and requires minimum
guidance and supervision
1 Needs improvement Rarely performs (1-2) within expectations and requires constant guidance
and supervision
1. Procurement
Apply the process of addition and deletion of SKUs in the formulary in
coordination with the Pharmacist
Demonstrates understanding of the process of supplier selection and
accreditation
Assists the Pharmacist in the process of replenishment and order
preparation of inventory
Assists the Pharmacist in Releasing of Purchase Orders to Suppliers
Adopted with permission from the proposed Guidelines on the Affiliation of Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs) with Hospital, Community, Industrial, Institutional, Regulatory & Public Health
Pharmacies for the Training of Students in Pharmacy Education , CHED Technical Committee for Pharmacy
Education