"The profession was switching the way it trained pharmacists, and as a result there was a year when we had no pharmacyclass, " says Jim Owen, director of professional practice for the American Pharmaceutical Association.
In my freshman phys ed class at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, we were required to learn to shoot a rifle for target shooting purposes (although I think planting the seed of arming future inner-city pharmacists was an ulterior motive).