Eliminating Bottlenecks to Learning Among Pharmacy Students

The importance of educating pharmacy students often is discussed, but the realities are that teaching is generally low on faculty members' priority lists; faculty members strive for promotion whether they are on a tenure or non- tenure track; teaching is time consuming and a challenge to do well on a consistent basis; teaching sometimes in- volves dealing with unmotivated students; and teaching effort is not remunerated as is scholarly activity. In gen- eral, teaching may not contribute anything to future pro- motion decisions. A priority impacting faculty members is the institution's need for additional funding beyond tuition revenue and/or state financial support, pressuring faculty to generate money through research funding and/ or the delivery of clinical services. However, the term ''to educate,'' is derived from the Latin,educatus, meaning to lead forth, ie, to provide schooling, to develop mentally and morally. 1 Thus, as pharmacy educators, it is our