Final Report of the Council of Deans
The mission of the Council of Deans is to identify and address major issues related to the conduct of professional, post-professional and graduate education, research and service in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. The issues addressed by the Council of Deans in 2007-2008 included the costs of experiential education; underrepresented minorities and the academy; emerging issues that have the greatest potential to affect the educational, research, and service enterprise; faculty workforce; medication safety; and strategies for college/school of pharmacy engagement in campus-wide activities aimed at providing public health education for all undergraduates. The COD Chair worked closely with the COF Chair, Brian Crabtree, to continue the work of the Councils on faculty workforce issues and a healthy students project that explores how colleges and schools of pharmacy and their faculties might participate in and advance efforts on their campuses to meet the IOM recommendation that all undergraduates should have access to education in public health. The COD also partnered with the COF to establish two new joint task forces, one on emerging issues in pharmacy education from the perspective of faculty members and deans with the greatest potential impact on schools and colleges of pharmacy over the next five to ten years; and another task force to address the role of pharmacy education in improving medication safety.