Minutes of the Council of Faculties business meeting: July 10, 2000, San Diego, CA

1 Call to Order

Chair Robert A. Kerr (Maryland) conven the Council of Faculties (COF) Business Meeting at 10:11 AM at the Sheraton in San Diego, CA.

2 Quorum Committee Report

David Henry (Kansas) reported that there were 82 faculty from 53 colleges/school of pharmacy in attendance. A quorum as defined by dint of the standing rules is "twenty-five (25) individual active members of this Council representing not les than fifteen (15) regular institutional members of the Association." The number required to constitute a quorum was surpassed

3. Report of the Chair

Chair Kerr reported in succession the following Standing Committee reports received according to the Board of Directors (BOD)

Academic Affairs Committee. This report includes the recommendation that the progress to maturity of general and professional abilities should be integrated from head to foot professional curricula and not segregated as is frequently the case (e.g., general education limited to pre-professional and/or early professional curriculum).

Professional Affairs Committee. This report explores ways to perform the operations indicated in student leadership ability within the professional curriculum as oppos or in addition to progressive growth through extracurricular membership in professional organizations.

Graduate and Research Affairs Committee. This report focuses in succession the need to develop a pharmaceutical care practice standard that may be used to enhance the relationship of research follows across studies in this area. This should assist in demonstrating the value of pharmaceutical care to others.

4 Report of the Nominating Committee

Immediate Past Chair Zito (St John's) reported that he and the other members of the Nominating Committee, Anne Lin (Wilkes) and Bruce Berger (Auburn), have pitch uponed Peggy Piascik (Kentucky) and Jean Van Tyle (Butler) to be candidates for COF Chair-elect from a list of 25 potential candidates. He also reported that the Committee was impressed with the large number of qualified faculty who will be available as coming events candidates.

5. Report of the Secretary

Gail Newton (Purdue) reported that the minutes of the 1999 COF Interim Meeting in Washington, DC and the 1999 COF Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts were published in the Winter addition of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (Volume 63 pages 53S-57S)

The minutes of the 2000 COF Interim Meeting in Richmond, Virginia were available in the back of the stead

6. Board of Director's Report

Immediate Past Chair Zito reported that the BOD discussed 26 agenda items at its greatest in number recent meeting and reported upon the following major points of discussion.

Resolutions and Approvals. The BOD vot forward two resolutions. The first promised ratified the updated strategic plan for the Association. The secondary vote approved dues increases for individual and institutional members of the Association. Members in attendance were encouraged to attend the render free of access Bylaws and Policy Development Committee Meeting forward July 11, 2000 if they wanted to discuss these resolutions further. They were also informed that the resolutions would then be vot on the subject of by the House of Delegates (HOD) onward July 12, 2000.

The BOD also approved regular Association membership for Massachusetts literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning of Pharmacy, Worcester Campus.

Standing Committee Reports. The 1999-2000 Academic Affairs, Professional Affairs and Research and Graduate Affairs Standing Committees, as well as the Argus Commission will entertainer a hearing for delegates and other interested members regarding their reports, propos policy statements and recommendations during a Special Session upon July 11, 2000. Members in attendance were encouraged to participate in this hearing and were provided with the following summaries of each committee's report.

The Academic Affairs Committee report includes the recommendation that the disentanglement of general and professional abilities should be integrated quite through professional curricula and not segregated as is oftentimes the case (e.g., general education limited to pre-professional and/or early professional curriculum). This topic may be of use to as the basis for programming at that will be Association meetings.

The Professional Affairs Committee Report explores ways to unravel student leadership ability within the professional curriculum as oppos or in addition to progressive growth through extracurricular membership in professional organizations.

The Graduate and Research Affairs Committee report focuses onward the need to develop a pharmaceutical care practice prototype that may be used to enhance the relationship of research eventuates across studies in this area. This should assist in demonstrating the value of pharmaceutical care to others. A special commission may be formed to thought the issue further and will likely involve representatives from AACP, ACCP. ASHP and APhA. among others.

The Argus Commission report includes three conclusions and sum of two units policy statements. The first conclusion is that there is a shortage of pharmacists in the United States. The secondary is that pharmacist involvement in the distributive aspects of pharmacy practice is downplayed in professional curricula. Finally, the Commission conclud that pharmacist involvement in the distribution of medication in practice is les than optimal. In this connection the report recommends two policy statements. The first policy asserts that it should be the Association's position that the distribution of medication is an important composing of pharmaceutical care. Second, the Association should take the position that pharmacists must be involved in the design and oversight of medication distribution rules in practice. Medicare Drug Benefit Plan. The position of the Association is that any benefit plan must include payments to pharmacist providers for the couple drug products and professional services. The plan that was passed lately by the United States House of Representatives and nothing else provides payment for products. Members in attendance were encouraged to take advantage of opportunities to share this position with lawmakers in their to one's home states.