[To prepare the future: analysis of the occupational changes in the dispensary pharmacist's profession. Necessity of a common project linking the university and the chemist's shop].

Academic people devote themselves too rarely to an analysis of the evolution in a profession for which 80% of its students are intending to take up, that is, a dispensing chemist. This article is divided into three parts: the first part is an analysis aiming at understanding a certain moroseness felt by dispensing chemists in a society which is evolving. The pharmacy faculties, very centred on themselves, preoccupied about their scientific recognitions, are more and more getting away from the field professionals, both by their teaching and by their research. This leads the profession to a distress where everyone plays in one's camp, with the author's feeling of seeing some teachers sawing the branch of which they are seated. The pharmaceutical profession is itself under the stress of attacks from the ministry through the decrease of remunerations as part of the health expenditure control and from supermarkets which are delight to be able to open breaches into parapharmaceutical fields. How is it possible to reconcile the university and the chemist's shop.