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Article: Pharmacy schools can't meet chain demand for more R.Ph.s
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- Drug Topics
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- October 5, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Medical Economics Inc. Oct 5, 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The nation's 80 pharmacy schools cannot ramp up their factories fast enough to produce new graduates to meet the chain drugstore industry's insatiable demand for more pharmacists, according to a cross-section of deans. Not enough classrooms, faculty members, and preceptor sites-all are reasons pharmacy school deans say they can't increase class sizes to produce the community R.Ph.s that they claim are needed to fill the more than four billion annual Rxs projected by 2005. And the six new pharmacy schools that raised concerns about a pharmacist glut can't dramatically impact the community pharmacy manpower pool.
The anticipated four billion Rxs are a 44% jump from the 2.8 billion Rxs ...