The school of pharmacy, the Complutense University of Madrid and the spanish political Transition

Abstract

After a brief analysis of the Spanish political transition, in this article we will try to offer a general perspective of what this process meant for Spanish society, for the university – in particular for the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM – and, finally and to a greater extent, for the School of Pharmacy of the UCM. Doing it exhaustively, also providing the corresponding documentary graphic material, would be completely outside the limits of this article, so we will stick to a few specific aspects, which we hope will be sufficient to reach a general, global, representative and consistent for this period. To do this, we will look at Antonio Doadrio López, the dean of the transition, the existence of “complementary academic subjects” imposed by the regime, the difficulties in updating the Pharmacy curriculum, the changing academic regime, the demographic and sociological aspects most relevant of students, their associations and participation, ending with the Informative Bulletin of the Faculty (BIF), where some of the chapters of that great story that was the Transition were written in fine print. Keywords: Spanish political transition; Complutense University of Madrid; School of Pharmacy; academic curriculum; student participation; academic regimen