The Education of a Provincial Pharmacist William A. Zellmer Donald E. Francke Medal Lecture Presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada December 7, 2009
Introduction When I selected as the title of this lecture, "The Education of a Provincial Pharmacist," I was trying to reconcile my self-concept with the international focus of this award. I have concentrated my career on efforts to advance hospital and health-system pharmacy in one country, the United States of America. My focus has been provincial. So I was both humbled and puzzled when the ASHP Board of Directors selected me for this international award. What allowed me to reconcile this disconnect was recognition that, after 42 years in this profession, I have evolved to become something more than a provincial pharmacist. Like many other pharmacists, over the course of a career, I have become more cosmopolitan in outlook, more aware of global interconnections in all facets of life, more concerned about how our decisions and behavior today will affect future generations everywhere, and more aware of the need for mutual support among like-minded pharmacists around the world in attaining worthy professional goals. So, in accepting this award, I do so in a spirit of kinship with all pharmacists who feel connected with a professional community that transcends the borders of where they live and work. Donald E. Francke At the outset, I want to pay tribute to the man in whose honor this award is named. Donald E. Francke was an extraordinary pharmacist in the depth of his insights, the breadth of his vision, the scope of his actions, and the inspiration of his words. In his Francke Medal Lecture in 1973, he explored the history of humanity's abuse of drugs and appealed to pharmacists to prepare themselves to better deal with this issue.1 He suggested that to do this, pharmacists needed to concern themselves with problems related more to the quality of people's lives than with their use of drugs. Dr. Francke said, The pharmacist could contribute most … if … he [or she] tried to do the following: Improve the quality of life on this planet. This means working for the eradication of pollution of our air, our waters and our land, to stop the despoiling of our natural resources and to help conserve our sources of energy….

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