Czech Pharmaceutical Education under German Occupation in 1939–1945

Overview

When Czech universities were closed down in 1939, the already prepared reform of pharmaceuticalgraduate studies could not be implemented. The education of pharmacists, assistants, and aspirantswas taken over by the Central Union of Pharmacists through its departments, in particular theCzech Pharmaceutical Academy and the Czech Society of Pharmacists. Training of pharmaceuticalaspirants took place at the schools for aspirants in Prague and Brno. The experience obt ained atthese pharmaceutical courses and the new knowledge concerning drugs and pharmaceuticalpreparations provided by industry and research laboratories contributed to the improvement of thereform of pharmaceutical graduate studies in 1948.

Key words:
occupation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1939–1945 – pharmaceutical education– Czech Pharmaceutical Academy – schools for aspirants