Cencora APPE Rotation Application 2024-2025


Thank you for applying to Cencora's (formerly Xcenda) Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) program. Cencora is proud to offer a unique APPE program to prospective PharmD candidates, holding strong to our belief of contributing to the future of healthcare and to the future professionals in our industry. At Cencora, PharmD candidates will have the opportunity to leverage the knowledge of highly accomplished industry experts while gaining hands-on experience as a contributing member to a wide array of projects across multiple pharmaceutical companies, therapies, and disease states.

This practice experience is designed to provide PharmD candidates with a basic understanding of the clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes of healthcare interventions. Didactic and practical experience in these core areas will expose the student to a variety of competencies utilized in a health outcomes research and market access consulting firm.

The practice environment primarily involves working directly on projects for a number of top pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies, and may include interactions with other healthcare stakeholders (payers, providers, and patient advocates). Specific work may include assisting with projects in any of the following areas:

  • Health Economics & Outcomes Research: Economic modeling, HEOR trainings, HEOR presentations, HEOR evidence generation roadmaps, outcomes analyzers, database studies
  • Market Access: Payer value propositions, field-based tools, payer and reimbursement landscape assessments
  • Market Research: Payer interviews, advisory boards, mock P&T meetings, payer surveys
  • Medical Communications: Dossiers, posters, manuscripts, medical slide decks, targeted literature searches
  • New Business Development: Proposal writing, market trends and pipeline product assessments, company/disease/product overview presentations


The Cencora APPE rotation will be remotely based. Students will be provided a laptop for use during their rotation.

To complete your online application, you will need to provide the following:

  • An updated copy of your CV
  • A statement of interest (maximum 200 words)
  • Your 3 preferred rotation block dates


Important Dates and Deadlines:

  • The deadline to apply is 11:59 pm Pacific Time on Sunday, November 3, 2024
  • Decisions will be communicated by Cencora via email in early December 2024
  • If Cencora does not already have an affiliation agreement with your school, Cencora will work directly with your experiential director to establish one prior to your confirmed rotation block