Creighton University, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Omaha, Nebraska.
Marshall University, School of Pharmacy, Huntington, West Virginia
Am J Pharm Educ. 2023 Apr;87(3):ajpe9116. doi: 10.5688/ajpe9116. Epub 2022 Oct 21.
Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to realistically do more to recruit our way out of this situation in the next three to five years and beyond. Second, how, if possible, will pharmacy colleges and schools avoid the significant and transformative forces that could impact higher education in the future. Forces that are impacting higher education include changing demographics, transitioning from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, and the continuing advances in technology with increased globalization as a component of all three of these forces. To address these questions, the concepts of student retention and success as well as considerations for reframing current curricular and pedagogical models and beliefs are challenged. In that pharmacy enrollment challenges are not likely to be easily resolved in the next few years, the Academy must place additional emphasis on issues related to student success and the design of our educational models and programs.
药学教育的招生一直是一个广泛讨论的话题，因为申请人数有所下降。一些药学项目要么没有达到招生目标，要么减少了入学班级规模。本评论提出了我们作为一个学会必须问自己的两个问题。第一，在未来三到五年及以后，我们是否有可能通过更多的招生来解决这种情况。第二，如果可能的话，药学院校将如何避免可能影响未来高等教育的重大变革力量。影响高等教育的力量包括人口结构的变化、从基于工业的经济向基于知识的经济的转变，以及技术的不断进步，而全球化是这三个力量的组成部分。为了解决这些问题，学生的保留和成功的概念以及对当前课程和教学模式和信念的重新构建的考虑都受到了挑战。由于药学招生方面的挑战在未来几年不太可能轻易得到解决，因此学会必须更加重视与学生成功以及我们的教育模式和项目设计相关的问题。
