Shreveport Med School Students Selected

              The Shreveport Times Metropolitan
News
Sunday, March 23, 1969 Ark-La-Tex News Oil and Gas Classified Section C, Page One
Shreveport JVIed School Students Selected
PREPARATIONS FOR THE FALL OPENING of the
LSI! Medical School here have kept officials busy
in recent months. Housing for the medical student::
(top left photo) will be found in the Linwood Apart-ments
which were sold to the school by the federal
government and will be renovated soon. The Stone-wall
Missile Site (top left photo), donated by the U.S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will
be utilized as a research facility and animal quarters.
A renovated ward kitchen at Veterans Administration
. a»ifi Is! iteftlj iitt %
j Hospital (bottom left photo) will serve as the biochem-j
istry laboratory. Checking out equipment in the facil-ity
is Dr. G. G. Rudolph, head of the department, (left),
and Dr. Robert Smith. Anatomy laboratory technician
Mrs. Lila Hvam (bottom center photo) prepares slides
for use in the fall classes. Students will have a quiet
place to study in the carrels of the medical school li-brary
(bottom right photo), located in the basement of
VA Hospital. (Times Photos by Langston McEachern,
Lloyd Stilley and Terry R. Vaughan)
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By MARGARET MARTIN
Of The Times Staff
Thirty-two young men and
women have been accepted at
Louisiana State University Med-ical
School at Shreveport, ac-cording
lo Dr. William T. Mc-
Elroy, assistant dean of admis-sions
and student affairs.
Although names of the stu-dents
haven't been released yet,
Dr. McElroy said that the youths
represent 17 communities, in-cluding
several from the Shreve-part-
Bossier City area.
Twenty-five per cent of the
class is married and the average
age is between 21 and 22.
The students now attend 10
colleges, which are Louisiana
State universities in Baton Rouge
and in New Orleans, Louisiana
Tech, Northeast State College,
Northwestern State College, Tu-lane
University, McNeese State
College, Centenary College, the
University of California at Berke-ley
and the University of Texas.
The class was selected from
over 500 applicants, said the of-ficial.
Criteria for selection came
from undergraduate college aca-demic
records, medical college
admission scores, college rec-lommendations
and personal in-terviews.
During its first year nf opera-tion,
the school will use a variety
:of buildings, including the Vet-erans
Administration Hospital,
Confederate Memorial Medical
j Center, the Linwood Apartments
and the Stonewall Missile site.
The 32 students will begin
their medical school education
in the Veterans Administration
Hospital, where four ward kitch-ens
have been converted at a
cost af $90,000 into physiology
and biochemistry laboratories,
and basic science classes.
The gross anatomy laboratory
in the basement of the VA will
be ready by September, while
the library, with shiny new car-rels
and shelves of books, is
ready for occupancy.
A portion of the seventh floor
is being renovated for use as
formal lecture rooms, while the
administrative offices are lo-cated
on a fifth floor wing.
A building once used as nurses
quarters has been renovated and
is being used by Dr. Helmut
Redetzki in the Pharmacology
and Therapeutics Department.
Still another building on the
grounds of the hospital has been
promised to the medical school
"when they need it." according
to E. P. Whitaker, administrator
at the VA.
The curriculum for the first
year, according la Dr. George
Meneely, associate dean and co-ordinator
of plans and programs,
includes anatomy, biochemistry,
physiology, radiology, clinics,
history of medicine, introduction
to comprehensive care, biome-try,
human ecology.
To get ready for the Septem-ber
opening the professors are
getting supplies and physical
equipment ready, developing
"teaching material, such as mi-croscopic
slides."
Present plans call for the
school building to be construct-ed
on the site of Confederate
Memorial Medical Center, with
an outpatient clinic on the Lin-wood
side of (he hospital.