[To prepare the future: analysis of the occupational changes in the dispensary pharmacist's profession. 2nd: Necessity of a common project linking the university and the chemist's shop: practical proposals].

After having in a first part established facts, the authors in a second part, would like the french pharmacy faculties to be more open to the profession. In order to reach this aim, at least one teacher per faculty must direct a research towards the assessment of professional practices by creating observatories in order to measure better what is going on in the field and consequently make the evolution in teaching possible. The author, a professor in clinical pharmacy, the latter being a discipline which is naturally open to professional practices, relates an original experiences carried out in Grenoble about the activity of a quality assurance centre for the pharmaceutical act.

[To prepare the future: analysis of the occupational changes in the dispensary pharmacist's profession. Necessity of a common project linking the university and the chemist's shop].

Academic people devote themselves too rarely to an analysis of the evolution in a profession for which 80% of its students are intending to take up, that is, a dispensing chemist. This article is divided into three parts: the first part is an analysis aiming at understanding a certain moroseness felt by dispensing chemists in a society which is evolving. The pharmacy faculties, very centred on themselves, preoccupied about their scientific recognitions, are more and more getting away from the field professionals, both by their teaching and by their research.