Program areas at American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Pharmcas: the Pharmacy college application service (pharmcas) is a centralized application service that is used by the majority of the Colleges and schools of Pharmacy. Designed for first-year professional Pharmacy degree applicants, pharmcas offers a simple, efficient process to apply to multiple Colleges and schools of Pharmacy using a single web-based application. This program assists member schools by helping meet their mission of educating and training pharmacists.
Member services: the Association offers unique benefits, services, and opportunities for institutional and individual members with challenging and relevant educational programming, advocacy efforts, publications, and partnership initiatives designed to provide opportunities to Pharmacy professionals at every stage of their development. The Association's core ideology - to provide leadership in advancing the quality of Pharmacy education at all levels - is reflected in the teaching, research, and service activities that take place within and outside our nation's Colleges and schools of Pharmacy. The Association seeks to provide leadership in advancing and enhancing the quality of education and training in its member institutions.
Meetings: the Association's member-directed programming provides Pharmacy educators with opportunities to network with peers at the Association's annual, interim and other meetings for the purpose of enrichment, professional growth and development. The Association's annual meeting is the largest gathering of academic Pharmacy administrators, faculty and staff and offers more than 75 educational programs that cut across all disciplines. The Association also holds other specialized meetings on topics related to professional education, leadership and curricular development.
Education scholar and other programs: the Association's other programs include but are not limited to "education scholar" focusing on teaching excellence and providing scholarship development resources for health professions educators. The area of faculty recruitment and retention provides a series of manuscripts, documents, reprints, case studies and exercises to improve Pharmacy educator's management and leadership capabilities. The Association also provides analyses and demographic data reported for full-time, part-time and emeriti, and on salaries reported for full-time Pharmacy faculty and administrators. The contributions of outstanding faculty at Colleges and schools of Pharmacy are annually recognized with a series of awards presented at the Association's national meetings.