University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2019 Feb;83(1):7051. doi: 10.5688/ajpe7051.
This commentary is an observation of longitudinal trends in national data on the pharmacist workforce and pharmacy education. Data indicate seismic shifts in supply and demand, from critical shortage to imminent oversupply. The change in the profession to employing more patient-care focused jobs has been observed as slow and minimal, although academia has focused on the clinical training and rapidly increased enrollments. Pharmacy is on the brink of transforming the profession, but several important changes are still required to alter the current trajectories of supply and demand. Pharmacy schools, associations, and employers must devote all energies to immediate and significant actions that tip the balance in favor of pharmacists of the future.
这篇评论是对药师劳动力和药学教育的国家数据的纵向趋势的观察。数据显示，供应和需求发生了重大变化，从严重短缺到即将供过于求。尽管学术界一直关注临床培训和注册人数的快速增长，但该行业向更多关注患者护理的工作的转变一直缓慢且微不足道。药学即将改变这个行业，但仍需要一些重要的改变来改变当前的供需轨迹。药学院校、协会和雇主必须全力以赴，采取即时而重大的行动，使天平向未来的药师倾斜。
