Experiential Learning

“Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand” – (Confucius circa 450BC)

 

APPEL oversees and supports the experiential learning placements for all students enrolled on the integrated pharmacy programmes in the three Schools of Pharmacy across Ireland.

In its simplest form, experiential learning means learning from experience or learning by doing. Experiential learning is designed to expose students to real-life practice as a means of putting their academic studies into context and refers to learning undertaken by students within real-world pharmacy settings.

By creating authentic and meaningful learning experiences, the student is enabled to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required in professional practice. Through concrete experiences with patients and with practising pharmacists, within the reality of the workplace environment, students can review and reflect on events, make connections to other experiences, and begin to generalise and apply this learning to new contexts.

Students are therefore encultured into a way of reasoning and acting that supports their transition into and development within the pharmacy profession.