Site Visit
During the May 2025 – May 2026 rotation year, a total of 53 site visits were completed. These visits engaged directly 79 site coordinators and preceptors and covered the 276 preceptors who hosted student pharmacists during the rotation year.
Practice Settings Represented
The site visits spanned a wide range of pharmacy practice settings, ensuring comprehensive experiences available to students in the curriculum. The distribution of preceptors covered through site visits across practice settings was as follows:
- Health-System Pharmacy: 52 preceptors (19%)
- Community Pharmacy: 55 preceptors (20%)
- Acute Care General Medicine: 30 preceptors (11%)
- Ambulatory Care: 20 preceptors (7%)
- Administrative and General Practice: 49 preceptors (18%)
- Patient Care Electives: 70 preceptors (25%)
Longitudinal Track
The Longitudinal Track Program (LTP) at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is an advanced experiential education model designed to provide students with immersive, long-term learning experiences at a single practice setting. Students complete multiple Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs) rotations within either a Community Practice or Health-Systems track.
Participating sites for the 2026-2027 rotation calendar:
Health Systems
- Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center
- Children's National Medical Center
- Frederick Health Hospital
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- Holy Cross Hospital – Germantown
- Kaiser Permanente
- MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital
- MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
- MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
- Meritus Medical Center
- The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Washington DC VA Medical Center
- University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center
- University of Maryland Medical Center
- UPMC Western Maryland
Community Practice
- Independent Pharmacies
- Johns Hopkins Care at Home
- Safeway Pharmacy
- Walgreens
- Weis Pharmacy
Statistics
- 84.1% of the class of 2027 applied to the longitudinal track program
- 95.1% of applicants matched in the program
Student Rotation Placements (2026-2027)
The numbers represent students placed on rotations in Maryland counties, Washington, D.C., out of state, and internationally for May 2026-April 2027.
Rotation Placements
- Anne Arundel: 52
- Allegany: 5
- Baltimore City: 433
- Baltimore County: 103
- Calvert: 1
- Carroll: 14
- Frederick: 19
- Harford: 24
- Howard: 98
- Montgomery: 148
- Prince George's: 43
- St. Mary's: 5
- Washington County: 2
- Washington, D.C.: 9
- Out-of-state: 33
Global Rotation Opportunities
- Egypt – Alexandria University
- India – Sri Ramachandra Institute
- Italy – University of Camerino
- Japan – St. Marianna University
- Korea – College of Pharmacy at Chosun University and Ewha Woman’s University
- Puerto Rico – University of Puerto Rico School of Pharmacy
- Thailand – Siam University
- Zambia – The University of Zambia School of Health and Sciences
Specialized Rotations
Specialized rotations provide students with unique opportunities to explore non-traditional pharmacy practice experiences across the healthcare landscape. These experiences broaden students' perspectives and expose them to innovative and emerging areas of pharmacy practice.
- American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
- American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
- Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)
- American Public Health Association (APhA)
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP)
- American Society of Health-Sytems Pharmacists (ASHP)
- AstraZeneca
- Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services* - ClinicalMind, LLC*
- CVS Corporate and Aetna
- Eli Lilly
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Johnson and Johnson
- Maryland Board of Pharmacy*
- Maryland Poison Center*
- Merck & Co.
- National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)
- National Community Pharmacist Association (NCPA)
- National Institute of Health (NIH)
- Pfizer*
- Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA)
- Proctor and Gamble (P&G)
- Regeneron
- The Psychedelic Pharmacists Association*
- US Pharmacopeia
- Xcenda/Cencora
*Non-application based rotation opportunities
Student Rotation Readiness
The Experiential Learning Program supports student success and promotes readiness for pharmacy practice experiences through a combination of structured preparation overview sessions and engagement opportunities. These efforts help students understand rotation expectations, explore available practice experiences, and prepare for successful participation in both Introductory and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPEs and APPEs).
Rotation Readiness Sessions Success
To support student success and readiness for rotations, students participate in a series of mandatory Rotation Readiness Sessions designed to prepare them for Introductory and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPEs and APPEs). Students with excused absences complete supplemental readiness activities to ensure all learners meet program expectations prior to starting rotations.
Overall student engagement in Rotation Readiness Sessions remained exceptionally high across all professional years:
| Class | Engagement Rate |
| P1 | 97.00% |
| P2 | 95.30% |
| P3 | 97.30% |
| Overall Student Engagement | 96.80% |
Attendance exceeded 90% across all readiness sessions.
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Fair
The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Fair is an annual event at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy designed to support third-year pharmacy students (P3s) in determining their rotation sites for their final year.
The 2025 APPE Fair saw consistently strong student attendance and site coordinator and preceptor engagement. Notable highlights include:
- Student Attendance: 96% of the class P3 class attended.
- Preceptor and Site Coordinator Engagement: 81 preceptors and site coordinators participated, representing 42 companies and institutions
Companies and Institutions Represented
- Adventist HealthCare
- Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital
- AstraZeneca - Early Oncology Clinical Science
- CalvertHealth
- Children's National Hospital
- Correct Rx Pharmacy Services, Inc
- CVS Health
- Frederick Health Hospital
- Giant Pharmacy
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- Hereford Pharmacy
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- Johns Hopkins Care at Home
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente
- LifeBridge Health
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center
- Lutherville Pharmacy
- MD Board of Pharmacy
- MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital
- MedStar Union Memorial Hospital Meritus Medical Center
- MJH Life Sciences
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital
- Professional Pharmacy
- Safeway Pharmacy
- Spring Grove Hospital Center
- The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
- TidalHealth Peninsula Regional
- UMSOP Teaching
- University Of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center
- University of Maryland Medical Center
- University of Maryland Medical Upper Chesapeake Health
- University of Maryland Quality Care Network
- UPMC Western Maryland
- VAMHCS
- Voshell's pharmacy
- Walgreens
- Walmart
- Wegmans Pharmacy
- Weis Pharmacy