Feedback from past externs
This section is a cooperative effort of several pharmacy students who have participated in the externship program at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. We hope we are able to answer your pre-travel questions here. If you have additional questions, please contact the pharmacy.
- Student housing
- Getting around
- Food service
- Mail and phone service
- Things to do in Sitka
- The work scene
- Field trips to villages
- What to bring
Field trips to villages
- Depending on the time of year, you may have an opportunity to visit an outlying village with one of the doctors. If this opportunity becomes available, we highly recommend the trip! You most likely will have to pay for travel expenses on your own, which could be expensive if you fly ($300), but the ferry is an alternative, which costs about $50 round trip.
- While visiting the village clinic, you will be able to provide patient consultations, spending about a 1/2-hour with each patient, going over their medications and checking for interactions and problems/concerns. It's a great opportunity to spend time with the patients, using the pharmaceutical care model.
- Other duties to be completed while at the village include checking the expiration dates on all stock bottles in the medicine room, dispensing medications, and typing up medication lists for the patients with multiple medications to take home.
- When going to the village, it's helpful to have a specific focus, such as diabetes patient consults. You may also have an opportunity to give a presentation to the village health aides, such as the monitoring parameters of the diabetic medications. The presentation would be informal, yet a wonderful learning experience, not only for the health aides, but also for you!
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