o o The WAYNE COMM y PHARMIC A A ~ CA 5 DOD OF DOD 0 A From the Dean's Desk o T IT Revised Undergraduate Curriculum 3 Fifteenth Annual Stephen Wilson Seminar 4 EXCELLENT SALARY and BONUS PLANS Dr. Abramson 5 PROFIT SHARING and RETIREMENT PROGRAMS MAJOR MEDICAL, BLUE CROSS and LIFE INSURANCE PLANS Graduating Seniors---1968 . 7 RETAIL MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE ADVANCEMENT and SECURITY Drug Abuse ... 14 ... AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT, "PRESTIGE" AS A PROFESSIONAL MAN IN A PROFESSIONAL POSITION! Greek Corner 16 Phi Delta Chi .... 16 Lambda Kappa Sigma 16 unningham's has these opportunities for you Rho Pi Phi 16 Kappa Psi ..... 17 ... as a professiona man in your community Report on Annual Kappa Psi Province V Assembly 17 TABLE OF Alpha Zeta Omega 17 18 Get the full story. Call or write Pharmacist Coordinator, Rho Chi Society 18 Professional Services Dept. Cunningham Drug Stores, Student Advisory Board 1927 Twelfth Street, Detroit, Michigan. WO 3·7760 CONTENTS APHA- MSP A Student Chapter 20 WSU Students Participate in MSP A House of Delegates . 20 Sister Emanuel ... .. 22 An equal opportunity employer operating throughout Michigan, Ohio and Florida Clinical Pharmacy 22 Wayne Pharmic 1 The WAYNE PHARMIC FROM the DEAN'S DESK VOLUME 12 1968 NUMBER 1 The Revised Undergraduate Curriculum Dean Martin Barr The Wayne Pharmic is the official publication of Wayne State University College of Pharmacy, written by, for, and about pharmacy students and graduates. participate effectively in community af­ sional associations and education, either fairs. This is partially accomplished by upon completion of the Bachelor of Sci­ providing the greatest possible oppor­ ence degree or after additional graduate tunity to partake of the social sciences study; our aim was to accommodate this and humanities. group also. For both groups the aim 2. The program should prepare all was to permit some degree of speciali­ students for the responsibilities of U­ zation for their chosen career area. It censure as a pharmacist by means of was agreed to establish a minimum an irreducible common core of courses. common core of courses to be required I STAFF The specific objectives of such a core of all students for the Bachelor of Sci­ are as follows: ence degree and to supplement this core On November 2'2, 1967, the faculty of a) To provide a basic understanding with three broad options: one in Profes­ the College of Pharmacy unanimously of the biological and physical sciences. sional Practice (either community or approved a revised five-year under­ b) To develop the ability to compound hospital), a second in Industrial Practice, Co-Editors Sandra Sharrard graduate curriculum leading to the de­ medications and prepare drugs in forms and a third in Pre-Graduate Study. DDD Ernest Gurwich gree of Bachelor of Science in Phar­ which are not commercially available. Students will select their option at the macy. The curriculum is to be effective c) To develop the abillty to com­ completion of the fourth year of study Business Manager Ronald Columbus for students who are scheduled to grad­ m1jnicate effectively to laymen, and to and will select appropriate professional uate in June 1971, or thereafter, i.e., other health practitioners, authoritative electives (a minimum of 12 q -c-h) for Assistant Business Manager Steve Zuckerman students who are in the first, second, pharmaceutical information and basic study during the fifth year in order to or third year of study in pharmacy in pharmacological information. achieve their specialization objectives. DD Publication Coordinator Sue Chenevert 1968 -69. (Students who are scheduled to d) To provide a basic understanding graduate in June or December 1970, or of established standards of strength and The Core Curriculum and Contributors Rosemary Bonnette before, will continue on the present purity of drug products as well as of the Program Options Ronald Ponichter curriculum, i.e., students who are in the control procedures used to determine Ken Resztak fourth or fifth year of study in 1968 -69). these standards. A total of 233 q.c.h. in the five years Alice Rice The revised curriculum is an effort e) To provide an understanding of the of study will be required for graduation, Ken Westfield by the College of Pharmacy to provide, r esponsibillty involved in the control of similar to that presently required. Of within the confines of the five-year the distribution of drugs. these, 197 hours will be taken by the core Guest Writers . Dean Martin Barr program, a course of study to meet the f) To develop sound problem-solving curriculum. A total of 78 q.c.h. will be Melvin F.W. Dunker, Ph.D. needs of the pharmaCist of today and of abilities which may be used to identify taken in the College of Liberal Arts Gary Fenn, Ph.D. tomorrow as it sees them. It represents and solve practical pharmacy problems. (English, Biology, mathematics, chem­ several years of study and deliberation g) To develop the ability to adminis­ istry, physics, economics, political sci­ Cover Sue Chenevert by our faculty, accompanied by hours of ter and manage a professional pharmacy ence' anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, discussion and debate on observable practice. etc:). ' Professional courses in the Col­ Photographer J . Yale Hechtman trends in professional practice and their 3. The program should offer sufficient lege of Pharmacy comprise 119 q. c. h. implications for the future. As part of flexibility to allow for the selection by Elective courses comprise 36 q.c.h. Faculty Advisor Melvin F.W. Dunker, Ph.D. the study, conferences were held with the student of additional speCialized of the curriculum. Of these 24 q.c.h. individual students and alumni and an course work to supplement the core are required electives in the humanities all-college student body meeting was program. and social sciences; 12 q.c.h.' are pro­ held to discuss the curriculum study. fessional electives and will be selected Several meetings were also held by the Plan of Revision of the Curriculum based on the student's choice of spe­ Dean and the Dean's Liaison Committee cialization option as was previously dis­ in considering the revisions. To accomplish the stated objectives cussed. An informal committee con­ presented a formidable challenge. In the ststing of the chairmen of the various Objectives of the Curriculum belief that the large majority of the departments in the humanities and social College's graduates would continue to sciences of the University has aided the The revised curriculum was drafted enter professional practice, either in faculty in preparing a broad listing of based on the general concept that the the community or in a hospital or re­ courses in their areas from which it pharmacist of the future must be more lated health-care facillty, or both, the will be suggested the students select disease and patient oriented than here­ aim of the faculty was to prepare this their electives. tofore, in addition to being product group for potentially superior perform­ oriented, if he is to be better prepared ance in developing new opportunities for Course Changes and Innovations in the to meet the challenges of future pat­ total professional service by the phar­ Core Curriculum terns of patient care, a philosophy m1cist as a member of the patient-care COVER: THANK YOU: NOTE: shared by the great majority of ph arm a­ team. On the other hand, there has been It should be emphasized that the Anyone wishing to join the '!!ayne ceutical educators. a small but steadily increasing number changes made in the curriculum are The objectives of the revised cur­ of students in pharmacy whose career great indeed, and, as those of many The ~ne Pharmic staff wishes to ex­ Pharmic staff next year, please leave riculum are as follows: plans lie, not in professional practice, other forward-looking schools of phar- A "Mod" des i g n incorporating the tend their appreciation to Dr. Dunker name, address, and position desired in 1. The program should produce an but in work in the pharmaceutical sci­ mortar and pestle as a symbol of phar­ for his invaluable assistance in form­ the ~ne ~harmi£ mailbox in the educated man, an individual able to ences in industry, government, profes- (Continued on Page 11) macy with the Wayne Centennial Seal. ing this publication. office, 309 Shapiro. 2 Wayne Pharmic Wayne Pharmic Page 3 an incons istency exists between the use what is done, short of intensified psy­ the problems which exist in a person's of drugs as compared to the use of al­ chiatric care. DR. life (e.g., pressure on youth, conflict Fifteenth Annual Stephen Wilson Seminar cohol, thus placing a credibility gap on with society, the need for security, other aspects of our culture. But it is curiosity, boredom) and, therefore , the Rosemary Bonnette debatable whether the liberalization of A no)rm~l solutions of p::>lice power or ex­ drug laws (e.g., legalization of mari­ time years. Dr. Lerner continually em­ pulsions are not the proper cure for this Drug use and abuse and its implica­ juana) would decrease drug use and B phasized that prevention is the most situation. tions for the profession of phar macy was related crimes, for this seemed to have the theme of the 15th annual Stephen im;xHtant aspect of addiction control, Dr. Dillick pointed out that pharm~­ R no beneficial effects in England. s ince medical treatment is uniform \y cists have a responsibility to lead in Wilson Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Councilman Ravitz feels that drug use unsuccessful or comes too late. Hope lies efforts to clear up the many miscon­ A K Wayne State College of Pharmacy and offers evidence of the failure of the in education, the dissemination of in­ ceptions involved with the use of drugs the Pharmacy Alumni Association, the community to integrate the individual into formation, and the ability to communicate and to inform the public as to the social Mn seminar of February 27 , 1968 was held community life.