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(5)  Persons  who  have  not  given  sufficient  time  and  attention  to  the  study  of 
the  subjects  included  in  the  Board  examinations  in  pharmacy  should  not  be 
admitted  to  said  examinations.  All  applicants  for  admission  to  such  examina- 
tions should  be  required  to  submit  proper  evidence  that  they  have  satisfactorily 
completed  systematic  courses  of  study  in  the  subjects  upon  which  they  are  to 
be  examined,  which  subjects  should  be  named  and  described  in  public 
announcements  issued  by  the  Boards. 
(6)  A  Syllabus  of  Pharmacy  Examinations  should  be  prepared  by  a  Com- 
mittee of  this  Conference  which  shall  indicate  the  subjects  to  be  included  in 
the  Board  examinations  as  well  as  in  the  courses  of  instruction  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical schools  with  a  view  to  the  attainment  of  a  reasonably  uniform  standard 
of  minimum  requirements  which  may  be  adapted  by  all  Boards  and  Schools. 
(7)  A  national  Committee  on  Examination  Questions  should  be  appointed  by 
the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy,  which  committee  should 
consist  of   members  including  experienced  specialists  in  the  subjects  men- 
tioned in  the  Syllabus  of  Pharmacy  Examinations,  who  shall,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  said  Association,  prepare  questions  suitable  for  the  examinations  to 
be  held  by  such  State  Boards  of  Pharmacy  as  may  avail  themselves  of  the 
services  of  said  Committee. 
(8)  Definite  and  uniform  conditions  of  efficiency  should  be  adopted  which  all 
pharmaceutical  schools  must  comply  with  in  order  to  receive  recognition  by 
the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  in  all  cases  where  students  and  graduates  of  such 
schools  receive  credit  in  any  form  for  the  courses  they  have  completed  or  for 
the  time  of  attendance  at  such  schools,  these  conditions  of  efficiency  to  be 
made  public  and  to  be  applied  equally  to  all  schools. 
The  conditions  of  efficiency  prescribed  for  the  recognition  of  schools  of 
pharmacy  should  relate  solely  to  matters  directly  affecting  the  character  of 
their  educational  work. 
(9)  In  the  determination  of  the  fitness  of  any  applicant  to  receive  a  license 
to  practice  pharmacy  all  important  facts  of  his  educational  history,  practical 
experience  and  technical  services  should  be  taken  into  account,  including  his 
preliminary  general  education,  his  special  education  in  pharmaceutical  and 
other  related  technical  schools,  his  practical  experience  in  pharmacy  and  the 
results  of  the  examinations  he  has  passed,  and  an  average  of  these  several 
factors,  each  assigned  its  appropriate  value,  should  be  adopted  as  the  passing 
grade.  Substantial  credit  should  be  given  each  candidate  for  any  satisfactorily 
completed  courses  of  education  in  pharmaceutical  schools  according  to  their 
extent  and  character. 
(10)  Graduates  of  Schools  of  Pharmacy  registered  by  the  Boards  as  fulfilling 
the  prescribed  conditions  of  efficiency  should  be  exempt  from  the  Board  exami- 
nations, except  in  prescription  reading  and  dispensing,  upon  presentation  of 
satisfactory  evidence  that  they  have  successfully  completed  systematic  courses 
of  instruction  in  such  schools  extending  through  two  school  years  of  not  less 
than  eight  months  each  with  not  less  than  twenty -five  hours  instruction  weekly 
of  which  not  less  than  sixteen  hours  shall  be  laboratory  work,  the  evidence  of 
their  graduation  being  accepted  as  a  sufficient  equivalent  to  the  passing  of  the 
Board  examination,  provided  all  other  legal  requirements  for  license  shall  be 
fulfilled,  and  provided  further  the  candidate  shall  have  had  two  years  high- 
school  education  ;  but  no  person  should  be  granted  a  license  to  practice  phar- 
