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An original publication by Drake University highlighting the movement toward entrepreneurial leadership in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Articles include "Successful Change and Innovation", "Resources for Change", and "Changing Perceptions".
Below is an excerpt of page four of this sixteen page publication.
Successful Change and Innovation
Over the course of pharmacy's history, the need to change and evolve the profession has been a common subject of discourse. The introduction of patient counseling, implementation of clinical pharmacy, evolution of the entry-level PharmD degree, and the need for pharmaceutical care all invoked a call through the profession for change agents - for leaders. In order for these changes to occur, current and future pharmacists need to apply certain characteristics in their professional lives. These characteristics included creativity, innovation, problem solving, willingness to accept risk, passion and perseverence. These characteristics are the underpinnings of entrepreneurial leadership.
This entrepreneurial spirit - a spirit of change and innovation - is evolving as an essential component of success that Drake University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences instills in its graduates and throughout the profession.
In many pharmacy classrooms, groups of students are trained through experiences such as struggling to see through goggles that have been smeared with a mixture of Vaseline and corn flakes. Nearby, others work to remove foil wrappers from Hershey's kisses while wearing oven mitts. The common purpose of such exercises is to teach students empathy for patients with cataracts and arthritis. At colleges such as Drake University who are striving to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship, such exercises are also used to show students that opportunitites exists for new products that may help make life better for their patients.
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