Abstract
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According to the Bylaws of the AACP, the Academic Affairs
Committee shall consider any matter relating to the conduct of
pharmaceutical education to be within its purview, including but
not limited to curriculum, resources, faculty, and students. The
committee also considers matters extending beyond pharmaceutical
education to higher education, especially those elements concerned
with health professions education. It is the committee’s
responsibility to bring to the Association’s attention for information
or action those issues it identifies as timely and important.
In presenting the 1993-94 committee with its charge. President
Leslie Z. Benet observed that pharmaceutical education and practice
have undergone a paradigm shift from which pharmaceutical
care has emerged as the central concept of pharmacy practice. In
noting that academe must react “rapidly and creatively,” he referred
the committee to four documents (his presidential address(
1), the works of the AACP Commission to Implement
Change in Pharmaceutical Education(2-5), the 1993 report of The
Pew Health Professions Commission(6), and the Association’s
strategic plan), and asked that they be considered for their implications
to the future of pharmaceutical education and AACP. As
an additional charge, the committee was encouraged to consider
strategies and tactics to assist the Association in achieving its
mission.
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