Chair Report for the Professional Affairs Committee1

AACP Bylaws state that the Professional Affairs Committee is to study issues associated with professional practice as they relate to pharmaceutical education, and to establish and improve working relationships with all other organizations in the field of health affairs. The Committee is also encouraged to address related agenda items relevant to its Bylaws charge and to identify issues for consideration by subsequent committees, task forces, commis-sions, or other groups. Pharmaceutical education and pharmacy practice have just undergone a paradigm shift to one that recognizes pharmaceutical care as the basis for the practice of pharmacy. This major shift must be rapidly and creatively followed by a period of change if the full value of the vision of the profession is to be realized. As a result, it was necessary and desirable for the Association to consider strate-gically its role and plan for achieving the new mission. President Leslie Z. Benet charged the 1993-94 Professional Affairs Committee with helping the Association develop its future agenda as it relates to issues of professional practice and the practice/education interface. The Committee was asked to consider the direction and impacts suggested by several documents (including Dr. Benet’s 1993 presidential address(1), the works of the AACP Commissio