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With UIC Pharmacy’s experiential education offerings, students get the chance to put classroom knowledge into practice at more than 900 sites in Illinois and beyond. In 2021, students gained access to a unique new tool to make finding their ideal rotations as easy as clicking an information-rich digital map.
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The project, an “experiential education geographic areas map” useable at both campuses, arose from the initiative of Megan Magnuson, senior class coordinator at Rockford. Magnuson realized the need for the map directly from student comments. “I would oftentimes sit in the back of the classroom, and I would listen to students say they wish they could know about this specific thing, about this specific preceptor, or they want to know what they’re going to be learning at this specific rotation,” Magnuson said. Drawing on those informal observations to conduct a survey, Magnuson learned that students wanted to know about a site’s objectives, how to be successful at a site, and what a typical day at a rotation looked like. Students
