Pharmacy Manpower Project Report Finds Ranks of Pharmacists Could Face Worsening Shortage.A new report finds the numbers of U.S. pharmacists could continue to dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. in the next decade as more men retire and more professionals, particularly women, choose part-time work. The report, prepared by the Pharmacy Manpower Project, Inc., will be released at a press briefing on Friday, March 17, 4:30 p.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there , at the American Pharmacists Association's Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The National Pharmacist Workforce Study, to be published in the May/June 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association The American Pharmacists Association (previously known as the American Pharmaceutical Association) is the first-established professional society of pharmacists within the United States and has over 60,000 members.[1] It was founded in 1852. , finds the potential shortfall coming at a pivotal time with pharmacists desiring to spend less time dispensing drugs and more time providing patient-centered services like immunizations and counseling seniors about the new Medicare Prescription Drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, Plan.
Who David A. Mott, Ph.D., Study Project Director and Associate
Professor & Hammel/Sanders Chair in pharmacy
administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lucinda L. Maine, Ph.D., Pharmacy Manpower Project
President & Executive Vice President, American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy
Katherine Knapp, Ph.D., Project Director, the Aggregate
Demand Index & Dean, College of Pharmacy, Touro
University-California
What National Pharmacist Workforce Study
When &
Where Friday, March 17, 4:30 p.m. PST
San Francisco Moscone Convention Center, Room 2018
San Francisco, CA
The Pharmacy Manpower Project, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. consisting of all major national, pharmaceutical professional and trade organizations. Its mission is to serve the public and the profession by developing data regarding the size and demography of the pharmacy practitioner workforce and conducting and supporting research in areas related to that workforce. |
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