Designing the pharmacy of the future and training its pharmacists is the goal of a partnership linking Auburn's School of Pharmacy and the College of Architecture, Design and Construction with the nation's third largest pharmacy chain. We are redesigning the pharmacy, automating prescription filling, retraining the pharmacists for disease management, and providing new software to support that role.
Barker calls the project re-engineering the role of the chain store pharmacist.
The profit margin from selling the drug product is diminishing. Tenn. With assistance from the Department of Industrial Design, Auburn developed a full-scale model. The design provides facilities and technologies that enable more personal interaction between the pharmacist and patient. There is space for private patient counseling and the latest in automated prescription distribution technologies. The Department of Industrial Design became involved initially through its association with Auburn's graduate program in pharmacy facility design, explained department head Professor Clark Lundell.