Restructuring of institutional long-term care was undertaken using predictions of future bed need with assumptions made on incidence rates of clients defined by type of disability, survival, and demographic changes. Recent substantial increase in the population rate of clients seeking placement across all degrees of disability, coincident with new facilities for those with modest disability, occurred. Consequently, more appropriate housing and supervised care beds, and more limited downsizing of nursing homes will be required.
Two timely subjects are discussed in the Departmental pages this month. The question of women in pharmacy was made so by the last annual report of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. As a result of that report the Association was stampeded into the appointment of a committee to find out if women really do present a problem in pharmacy. A report will be made a t the New York meeting.The question of hospital pharmacy has been a growing one for years. Just now its importance is increased by the establishment of hundreds of smaller hospitals throughout the country and the general recognition of the fact that a hospital, whatever its size, is not a complete hospital without a pharmaceutical service. Furthermore, the fact that a section on hospital pharmacy has been established by the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION is indicative of the growing importance of this phase of pharmacy's professional service.
July CITATIONChase HW, Wilson RC and Waltz JA ( ) Editorial: Computational accounts of reinforcement learning and decision making in psychiatric disorders. Front. Psychiatry : . doi: .
F ONE basic field in pharmaceutical education can be said to have been neglected more than I another, that field is the biological field. In this field pharmaceutical education hasaot kept pace with pharmaceutical practice and for that reason biologic assay went t o the medically trained man and not to the pharmaceutically trained individual, where it, by the nature of things, belongs. The Commonwealth Study of pharmacy showed physiology to be a basic pharmaceutical science and it took the strong hand of the Director of that study to keep certain members of the advisory committee from eliminating physiology from the pharmaceutical curriculum. The same sentiment was evident in the committee that made the last revision of the Pharmaceutical Syllabus. With the inclusion in the Pharmacopoeia of a number of biologic assays and with the whole field of medicine headed in that direction, for the Syllabus Committee to vote against making biologic assay a requirement in the curriculum, w a s nothing less than a tragedy, it was a pathetic calamity.It was all the more pathetic, not because the Committee did not see the vision, it was done for fear it would add to the expense of teaching in some schools which could not afford it. When a school reaches that point, it better give up trying to give courses in the pharmaceutical sciences and devote its energies to the teaching in elementary bookkeeping and penmanship. I t is therefore tremendously refreshing to find a man l i e Dr. R. A. Den0 of the School of Pharmacy of the Medical College of Virginia who is giving thought to the most basic of the basic biological sciences and is actually working out his thought in his own laboratory. Forty years ago, or at a n even later date, pharmacy was an isolated science. A College of Pharmacy was looked upon as a one-subject college. That condition is changed, no longer can we think of pharmacy in the terms of one subject, or in relation to physics and chemistry alone, it must also be thought of in its relation to botany, zoology, physiology, pharmacology, biologic assay, pharmacognosy and bacteriology. These subjects are just as rightfully called the pharmaceutical sciences as they are entitled to be called the medical sciences.Not only the pharmaceutical educator, but the research worker and the practicing druggist will appreciate the stress Doctor Deno has placed upon a more basic teaching of biological science in the pharmaceutical curriculum.-RuFus A. LYMAN, E&tor. THE TEACHING OF BIOLOGY TO PHARMACY STUDENTS. RICHARD A. DENO.*Courses in pharmacy almost always have included instruction in the science of botany. More recently, general work in zoology has been required in an increasing number of colleges. This requirement is logical when we consider the rapid development within recent years of gland products and other pharmaceuticals of animal origin, and the present-day emphasis upon courses that are cognate to the work in pharmacy proper and whose nature is biological. At the present time a few schools of pharmacy are requiring a yea...
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