[1] According to the editors, the journal's purpose is "to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the United States and Internationally."

The Journal was founded in 1937 and absorbed Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties,[2]: 288  which had been published under a couple of variant names between 1900 and 1937.

[3][4] As of 2010[update], the editor in chief was Joseph T. DiPiro,[5] Executive Dean at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy.

The Journal's founding editor was Rufus A. Lyman (1875–1957), who served from 1937 to 1955.

[2]: 254, 470  Lyman was a physician who held the post of Dean of Pharmacy at the Universities of Nebraska and Arizona.