An investigation of the current situation and practice in undergraduate and postgraduate education for clinical pharmacology was performed by mailing questionnaires to 85 departments of basic pharmacology, schools of medicine, universities or medical colleges with no department of clinical pharmacology. Questionnaires were returned by 54 of 85 departments (63. 5%). Major findings were:1. Undergraduate education for clinical pharmacology was established in 48 of 54 universities or colleges (89%), and the main person responsible was a teacher of basic pharmacology in 45 of 48 universities or colleges (94%).2. Postgraduate education was established in only 17 of 54 universities or colleges (32%), and the main person responsible was a teacher in a clinical department in 12 of 17 universities or colleges (70%).3. The course curriculum for clinical pharmacology was lecture and practical exercise for undergraduate students in 46 of 54 universities or colleges, while lecture, practical exercise and seminar was the curriculum for postgraduate education in 9 of 54 universities or colleges.4. Difficult issues for clinical pharmacology education (total plural number of answers was 61) were lack of specialists (21), incompletely established curriculum (16), and lack of specific department (11), etc.5. Needs for the future of clinical pharmacology (number of answers: 56) were the cooperation of clinical departments and the tie-up of basic and clinical departments (16), the institution of a department of clinical pharmacology (15), development of specialists (9), and fuller curriculum (7), etc.Results showed that the undergraduate education for clinical pharmacology was not completely but appropriately established, while for postgraduate it was insufficiently established.