New Medical Schools to Open Doors This Fall

              New medical schools
to open doors this fall
U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Shreveport, La. McMaster U. Health Sciences Centre Medical College of Ohio at Toledo]
Innovative medical schools ooen
Two American and one Canadian
medical schools are opening their
doors to freshman students for the
first time this fall.
The American schools—Louisiana
State U. Medical Center at Shreve-port
and the Medical College of
Ohio at Toledo—will raise the total
of United States medical schools to
101.
The Canadian medical school slat-ed
to open is the McMaster U.
Health Sciences Center in Hamilton,
Ont.
If all goes according to plan, the
openings will permit another 84 med-ical
students to begin their studies.
Thirty-two each are scheduled to en-ter
at LSU and Toledo, the remain-ing
20 at McMaster.
FOR THE U.S. schools, the new
institutions will bring the 1969-70
first-year enrollments to an estimated
10,012. Last year's actual first-year en-rollment
in 99 schools was 9,715.
Basic science subjects will be taught
in the Shreveport Veterans Adminis-tration
Hospital until completion of
LSU's new medical school building.
Permanent buildings will be located
on the grounds of the Confederate
Memorial Medical Center, a state-owned
1,000-bed general hospital.
Present plans call for a basic and
clinical science building, and a com-prehensive
care teaching facility de-signed
to provide an environment
where students may learn by active
participation in the care of ambula-tory
patients.
EDGAR HULL, MD, dean, says
first-year curriculum will i n c l u d e
anatomy, physiology, biochemistry,
comprehensive care, psychiatry, ecol-ogy,
biometry, radiology and history
of medicine, and also will offer elec-tive
time and clinical work. Dr. Hull
said curricula for the second through
fourth years, in the process of devel-opment,
have been delayed to permit
newly arriving faculty members to
participate in the planning.
The Toledo medical school, to be
located on a 360-acre tract, currently
is housed in a wing of the William
Roche Hospital adjacent to the Mau-mee
Valley Hospital, a complex capa-ble
of handling 800 patients.
Robert G. Page, MD, college dean,
says a new laboratory-teaching facility
also is available, and adds that addi-tional
faculty and research space is
located at Toledo U. in the Dept. of
Biology and in the Research Institute
of the Toledo Hospital.
Dr. Page said future plans include
the development of a permanent
campus which will introduce such ad-ditional
facilities as teaching and re-search
laboratories, clinical facilities,
and a learning-library center.
A UNIQUELY designed horizon-tal
trussed-frame four-level building
spreading over a 27-acre site is
planned for the McMaster Health
Sciences Center.
John R. Evans, MD, dean, says the
system of construction allows vast
floor areas unobstructed by support-ing
columns for distances as great as
85 feet. This, he said, permits high-ly
flexible planning of internal parti-tioning
and zoning so that changing
needs in the future can be accommo-dated
by simple renovation without
disruption of services.
A fjill.v sprvieen1 nreliminary lahoro_ tory building will accommodate the
students until the center is completed,
according to Dr. Evans. Construction
of the center will take three years.
When construction is completed at
all three schools, officials expect 100
students each to be enrolled at LSU
and Toledo, and 64 at McMaster.