Several points were raised regarding the opportunities to improve pharmacy experiential training, including the need for more experiential sites and qualified preceptors, addressing variations in training quality between experiential sites, the need for accreditation of experiential sites, and the use of technology to track experiential activities and assessments.
Experiential sites lacking on-site preceptors to supervise students have often been labelled in the allied health literature as "role-emergent", "self directed", "long-arm supervision", "independent community placements", or "non-traditional placement sites" [ 4, 15, 16].
Most other institutional settings such as outpatient clinics and stand-alone long-term care facilities had only limited pharmacy coverage, and as such were traditionally not considered to be eligible experiential sites for pharmacy students.
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, the responsibility for designing and implementing experiential sites falls to the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences as the sole post-secondary institution graduating pharmacists.
Fellows received a skills logbook in which they documented the skills acquired from the didactic modules and the experiential attachment site period.
And while the sites specialize in the experiential side of a trip — hunting down the perfect Italian villa, for instance — getting there requires more work on your part.
Quite the opposite, says Haddad; "I think by having so many, the quality has increased across events; more and more festivals have experiential activities on-site".
Writers such as Tim Crouch and Chris Goode have never quite fitted the mould, and playwrights such as Lucy Kirkwood and Elinor Cook have written for more experiential forms including site-specific work and audiotours.
This lets users feel the textures of clothes before buying online, add a new layer of engagement to gameplay, or create memorable on-site experiential activations.
