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lent,  should  be  required  as  a  prerequisite  to  the  pharmaceutical  ex- 
perience or  apprenticeship  required  for  the  licensing  of  registered 
pharmacists  and  assistant  pharmacists  and  for  admission  to  pharma- 
ceutical schools. 
(8)  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. 
(g)  Definite  and  uniform  conditions  of  efficiency  should  be  adopted 
which  all  pharmaceutical  schools  must  comply  with  in  order  to  re- 
ceive recognition  by  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  in  all  cases  where 
students  and  graduates  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  affecting  the 
character  of  their  educational  work. 
(10)  Special  education  for  the  practice  of  pharmacy  is  in  this  age 
a  necessity  and  should  as  rapidly  as  possible  be  made  compulsory 
and  the  rules  of  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  should  be  such  as  to  pro- 
mote and  encourage  it  in  all  practicable  ways.  The  special  phar- 
maceutical education  required  should  include  substantial  laboratory 
courses. 
(11)  A  syllabus  of  pharmacy  examinations  should  be  prepared, 
which  shall  indicate  the  subjects  to  be  included  in  the  Board  exam- 
inations as  well  as  in  the  courses  of  instruction  in  the  pharmaceutical 
schools,  with  the  view  to  the  attainment  of  a  reasonably  uniform 
standard  of  minimum  requirements  which  may  be  adopted  by  all 
boards  and  schools. 
(12)  A  national  committee  on  examination  questions  should  be 
appointed  by  the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy,  which 
committee  should  include  experienced  specialists  in  the  subjects 
mentioned  in  the  syllabus  of  pharmacy  examinations,  who  shall, 
under  the  direction  of  the  said  association,  prepare  questions  suitable 
