Dr. Beverly C. Mims, an associate professor of clinical and administrative pharmacy at Howard, says correcting the deficiencies cited by ACPE will allow the pharmacy school to enroll and graduate many more students than it does currently, helping fill a void created by a national pharmacist shortage.
“We have the capabilities of admitting over 200 students with each class, just based on the number of applications that we receive. However, we don’t have the facilities or faculty to support that number of students,” Mims says. “Those students would be employable immediately after graduation, so we would be making a contribution to the society as a whole.”
Dr. Muhammad J. Habib, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences, fully expects Howard to provide the resources necessary to bring the pharmacy school up to ACPE standards.
“The basic issue here is a resource issue, and the university has to address that issue. … It’s just a matter of their willingness to do it,” he says.
“I’m confident that the university will not let [the pharmacy program] go just like that. It’s a very viable and major program,” Habib says. “It’s very important for our university to continue this program. We always bring [in] more revenue than we actually spend, a lot more, so the university’s gaining from our program. So if they give us the proper share of the revenue, we will be all right.”
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