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First published on February 6, 2004; DOI: 10.1124/jpet.103.050237

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Received for publication October 9, 2003.
Revised February 5, 2004.
Accepted for publication February 5, 2004.

Academic Pharmacologists: Confronting new challenges in educational programs for graduate and health care professionals

Edward D. French 1*

1 University of Arizona

* Address correspondence to: E-mail: efrench{at}u.arizona.edu

Abstract

Pharmacologists belong to a special fraternity, one whose members love drugs, even though we may have highly individualized viewpoints about what aspect of drug action delights our intellectual curiosities. Still it is this passion to understand everything about a drug that drives our need to uncover the essence of a chemical's effect on living cells and tissues, and ultimately how it exerts its therapeutic benefits. In fact, over the past hundred years, the members of this club have discovered breakthrough after breakthrough in the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Notwithstanding these accomplishments, there are still those who suggest that this rich scientific discipline may have seen its time. Some have opined that our discipline's very existence may be subsumed by newer more trendy scientific pursuits and that pharmacology will finally be viewed simply as just another amorphous biological science. Couched within this recurring discussion is also the notion that systems, integrative, or what some refer to as functional pharmacology has been victimized by the new "omic" boys on the block, and that what is fondly referred to as classical pharmacology may be an endangered species spiraling into its own ultimate demise. While I disagree with this general premise, there is some kernel of truth to it when one examines the present state of graduate training in pharmacology. The distinction between the research endeavors of faculty in our discipline and those in cancer biology, medicinal chemistry, molecular medicine and neuroscience often becomes illdefined.


Key words: academics, basic sciences, clinical sciences, integrative, pharmacology, systems


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