AACP History SIG Model Power Point Presentations

AACP History of Pharmacy Special Interest Group model powerpoint presentations to meet the teaching requirements of the AIHP Guidelines on Teaching History in Pharmacy Education.

These model powerpoint presentations contain example slides that comprehensively cover the topics outlined in AIHP’s Guidelines on Teaching History in Pharmacy Education. Instructors should choose to use the slides that cover the topics that are appropriate to their particular history of pharmacy class or module.

Sample slide about the Era of Blockbuster Drugs from Presentation E - Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Sample slide about the Era of Blockbuster Drugs from Presentation E – Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry

The Teaching History of Pharmacy Committee members (2017-2019) of the AACP History SIG were responsible for the creation of these PowerPoint Presentations:

  1. Committee Chair: David M. Baker, BS Pharm, MBA, JD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration, Western New England University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
  2. James Colbert, PharmD, Health Sciences Clinical Professor & Associate Dean for Experiential Education (Retired), UC San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  3. Susan Miller, BS Pharm, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, Chair and Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Mercer University College of Pharmacy
  4. Karen Nagel-Edwards, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy
  5. Terri M. Wensel, PharmD, BCPS, TTS, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy
  6. Essie Samuel, PharmD, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Georgia-Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, School of Pharmacy
  7. Patricia Jusczak, BS Pharm, Associate Specialist, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy

Sumerian Cuneiform Prescription, c. 2100 BCE

Sumerian Cuneiform Prescription, c. 2100 BCE


Presentation A: Introduction to the Study of Pharmacy History (130 slides)

Download Presentation A – Introduction to the Study of Pharmacy History (.pptx)

Download Presentation A – Introduction to the Study of Pharmacy History (.pdf)

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the evolution of diagnosis and treatment of disease in early civilizations
  • Discuss the role of fossils in discovering disease in early man
  • Describe techniques used by early Native Americans to diagnose and treat disease
  • Describe the significance of artifacts left by early civilizations to medicine, treatment and society
  • Explain the importance of the shaman healer in the prehistoric era and connection to modern healthcare
  • Identify contributions made by Greek and Roman Empires, especially how they influenced the standards for Western pharmacy and medicine
  • Explain how the Romans built upon Greek medical and pharmacy achievements
  • Recall individuals from Greek and Roman Empires who advanced pharmacy and medicine
  • Describe methods used by the Greeks and Romans to diagnose and treat disease
  • Describe key features of Arabian pharmacy
  • Discuss the contributions of Arabian pharmacy to expanding pharmacy literature
  • Discuss key elements of Ancient Chinese Medicine
  • Discuss how Chinese Medicine evolved the use of the needle as a means to deliver treatment
  • Describe the doctrine and different disciplines of Ayurveda Medicine

Arabic medical scholar Rhazes

Arabic medical scholar Rhazes

Presentation B: Evolution of Pharmacy Practice (75 slides)

Download Presentation B – Evolution of Pharmacy Practice (.pptx)
Download Presentation B – Evolution of Pharmacy Practice (.pdf)

Topics Covered:

  • The Middle Ages – Arabic Contributions
  • The Middle Ages – European World
  • Colonial America and the Early Republic – Apothecary Shop Practice
  • Colonial America and the Early RepublicBeginnings of American Professional Pharmacy
  • Growth of Pharmacy Practice: Community Pharmacy
  • Growth of Pharmacy Practice: Institutional Pharmacy
  • Clinical/Hospital Pharmacy: Transformation through the 20th Century

Sample slide about Federal Pharmacy Law Development

Sample slide about Federal Pharmacy Law Development


Presentation C: Pharmacy Regulation via State and Federal Governance (48 slides)

Download Presentation C – Pharmacy Regulation via State and Federal Governance (.pptx)

Download Presentation C – Pharmacy Regulation via State and Federal Governance (.pdf)

Topics Covered:

  • State Pharmacy Law Development
  • Federal Pharmacy Law Development

Sample slide about Early US Pharmacy Education

Sample slide about Early US Pharmacy Education

Presentation D: Pharmacy Education (28 slides)

Download Presentation D – Pharmacy Education (.pptx)

Download Presentation D – Pharmacy Education (.pdf)

Topics Covered:

  • Early US Pharmacy Education, c. 1700-1890s
  • Progress in US Pharmacy Education, c. 1880s-Present
  • Evolution of ACPE Accreditation Standards

Sample slide about the Age of Quackery

Sample slide about the Age of Quackery


Presentation E: Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry (102 slides)

Download Presentation E – Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry (.pptx)

Download Presentation E – Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry (.pdf)

Topics Covered:

  • Italy
  • Europe, 17th and 18th Centuries
  • United States, Revolutionary War Era
  • United States, 19th Century
  • United States, The Age of Quackery
  • United States, Civil War Era
  • United States Pharmacopeia
  • United States, The Era of Biologicals
  • United States, World Wars (War Changes Everything)
  • United States, Post-World War Two Era
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