A program sensitizing health professional students to the elderly's health care needs produced student information gains in the area of aging, favorable changes in attitudes toward the elderly, and positive course evaluations. The broad range of evaluation approaches and the multi-year replications demonstrate the course's value in a pharmacy…

While deans and department heads can create a nurturing environment for faculty development, a significant burden of responsibility should be taken by each faculty member. (MSE)

Recent advances in biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology and their implications for drug delivery systems are discussed. (MSE)

An analysis of the work environment, social roles, work activity, manpower and productivity, and vocational interests of pharmacists suggests the need for broad-based curriculum giving equal emphasis to the administrative, behavioral, and social sciences and to the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. (MSE)

A clinical pharmacy certificate program, the most popular among Alabama pharmacists, is described, including statistics concerning enrollment, participant characteristics, factors important in pharmacists' entering and leaving the program, and pharmacists' views of the program's strengths and weaknesses. (MSE)

The difficulty of evaluating published articles in journals outside a discipline by promotion review committees is discussed. A study is described that identified journals in the pharmacy disciplines and had senior faculty members in all the pharmacy disciplines rank order the journals. (Author/MLW)

Forty hospital pharmacists participated in a 2 week pilot of a postgraduate clinical pharmacy clerkship, using different hospital services as teaching sites at the University of Illinois and Cook County hospitals in Chicago. The clerkship experience broadened participants' conceptions of the depth and scope of the clinical pharmacist's role.…

Pharmacy students and pharmacists surveyed on ethical dilemmas in pharmacy practice indicated a high degree of concern over patient welfare. The major area of disagreements was on economic concerns. The ethical dilemmas in pharmacy practice survey is appended. (Author/MLW)

The appropriateness of the predominantly clinical PharmD curriculum in light of actual employment patterns of PharmD graduates was evaluated. Data were gathered by a survey with respondents asked about employment patterns and characteristics and their formal education in the areas of management, statistics, and research methods. (Author/MLW)

A limited survey was conducted to obtain some quantitative data to gain an insight into trends which might have significant effects on the pharmacy profession. The loss of faculty members and higher degree graduates to nonpharmacy school employers was studied. (MLW)

The focus of pharmacy education and the preparation of pharmacy students for today's practice needs are discussed. Purpose and essential elements of contemporary pharmacy services, barriers on the achievement of the purposes of contemporary pharmacy services, levels of student learning, etc., are discussed. (MLW)

Issues relating to identifying pathways whereby pharmacy practioners can obtain additional training and experience leading to an advanced professional degree or certificate are identified. A scheme for assessing the prior learning of external degree or certificate candidates is suggested. (MLW)

Deans and coordinators of pharmacy externship/clerkship programs were surveyed. Inquiry focused on three areas of interest: program characteristics, preceptor payment, reward or status, and coordinator/director characteristics and status. (MLW)

During the Fall 1982 semester, Purdue pharmacy students elected to participate in a 24 class-hour course that stressed instruction and practical experience in geriatric pharmacy services. A major course project was the step-by-step development and presentation of an inservice educational program. (Author/MLW)

The uses, advantages and disadvantages, preparation, and scoring of essay tests and oral tests are outlined and discussed, and sample questions of each type oriented to pharmaceutical instruction are provided. (MSE)