ABSTRACT
Prussian law required that candidates for examinations serve a five-year regular apprenticeship or serve for three years as an assistant in a licensed shop. The candidates were also required to complete two full courses of botany, chemistry, natural history, pharmacy, and medical law. A favorable two-thirds of votes from the examiners, was required to receive a license. The shift from the focus on the drug product to patient centered care has challenged and transformed pharmacy education in America. Pharmacy education in British Colonial America followed the rather chaotic and circuitous route of Britain. Complicated by the necessity of coping with the unique economic, geographic, and political challenges of settling a new land, trained physicians and apothecaries initially were quite scarce and thus the transition from apprenticeship to formal education took centuries to achieve. The implications of pharmaceutical care and Medication Therapy Management hold enormous challenges for pharmacy schools as clinical pharmacy takes shape.
