Why Every Aspect of an Academic Pharmacy Career Should Be Viewed Through the Lens of Scholarship

Attending the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) in Anaheim, California, one could not help but notice that the general underlying theme in almost every activity and presentation was scholarship. Indeed, all of the four categories,1 scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching, were prominently on display by the members of the academy. Research or scholarship of discovery has traditionally been the cornerstone of promotion and tenure decisions in academia, including in academic pharmacy. However, pharmacy faculty members, like their counterparts in other disciplines, increasingly rely on evidence and peer review, the two pillars of scholarship, in all aspects of their responsibilities, which besides research include teaching and service