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Article: Acute Shortage of Faculty at U.S. Pharmacy Schools Threatens Efforts to Solve Nation's Pharmacist Shortage; New $12 Million Scholarship Campaign Launched to Recruit New Teachers.
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- July 29, 2003
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WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Citing new evidence that an acute shortage of professors at U.S. pharmacy schools threatens to escalate an already severe shortfall of practicing pharmacists, the nation's oldest pharmacy foundation is taking action to attract additional qualified people into careers teaching the next generation of pharmacists.
At a Washington news conference today, the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) -- joined by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and leaders of the pharmacy community -- launched Investing in the Future of Pharmacy Education, an ambitious privately financed scholarship campaign to attract more students to ...