Because of the remarkable increase in demand for medications, this article urges the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) to provide its member schools with necessary information so that they may move rapidly to increase capacity to educate pharmacists. Offers six recommendations related to increasing educational capacity and…

Expresses concern that the dramatic increase in federal support of biomedical research, specifically the doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget, is producing an excess of Ph.D. graduates in biomedical sciences. Suggests that continual increases in program enrollment are primarily driven by personnel needs of the academic research…

A survey revealed that most of Canada's PharmD pharmacists were trained in the United States. Canada has no PharmD programs, and its master's program training varies. Most undergraduate pharmacy students in one Canadian university expressed an interest in pursuing a PharmD degree if available there. (MSE)

A wide variety of pharmacy programs was offered in 1980 throughout the country by a wide variety of providers: pharmacy schools; local, state, and national professional associations; manufacturers; hospitals; private entrepreneurs; consortia; and publishers. Reasonable tuition, varied topics, and varied formats and methodology were available. (MSE)