National Health Services Corps offers loan repayment options for trained medical workers to work full time (also an option for part time) in an under served community (an accredited NHSC site). Currently it only has physicians and nurses as being specifically named in the option for this repayment, with pharmacists falling under "other schools of health profession." A bill (S. 48) is currently being considered in the Senate that would change the wording to specifically include pharmacists.
This may not seem like that much, but getting the name pharmacist in there specifically equalizes pharmacy to a valid medical profession as medicine and nursing.
Please take a little time and write your senators so that we can have support in getting this bill to pass.
