Classes will begin at 8 a, m. Monday opening the 32nd annual session of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, following student orientation and registration which was1 concluded last week.
Total university enrollment at the Medical Center has reached 650,; on the>J)asis of figures compiled at the end of registration, said Dr. William W. Fryet vice presi3ent of LSU and dean of the School of Medicine.
"This gives us our largest full-time student enrollment in the 32-year history of the Uni versity Medical Center," he said.
This figure does not include the; approximately 200 interns and resident physicians attached to the LSU Medical and Surg-idal Services at the Charity Hospital of Louisiana, the principal clinical teaching unit of the Medical Center, Dr. Frye continued. 507 IN FOUR YEAR COURSE
Total enrollment in the four-year course of the School of Medicine is 507.
A breakdown of the four classes follows: first-year, 143; second-year 132; third-year, ,122; and fourth-year, 111.
Additional students are en-rolfed at the Medical Center in the undergraduate baccalaureate nursing curriculum, the medical technology program and in the graduate fields of the basic medical sciences.
These students swell university enrollment at the Medical Center to the 650-mark, with 97 enrolled in nursing, 21 in medical technology and 25 pursuing either master of science or doctor of philosophy degrees in the fields of anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, psychology and medical parasitology.
A total faculty of 575 persons will be involved in the Medical Center's operations during the coming academic year, said Dr. Frye, with 154 holding full-time academic appointments and the remainder serving as members of the clinical faculty, devoting a part of their time from the practice of medicine to lecture or otherwise instruct on a part-time basis.
$6.3 MILLION IMPROVEMENT
Completion of two major segments of a $6.3 million building program of expansion will highlight the coming year, Dr. Frye stressed, including:
A $3.1 million 11-story residence hall and student center, three blocks from the Medical Center, which will provide living facilities for 337 students,; including single, double and; quad rooms for unmarried male^ or female students, as well as one, two and three bedroom; apartments for married student! families. I
A $3.2 million project, embodying construction of five three-story wings to the existing School of Medicine' building, which will provide additional research space and a three-level off-street auto, parking facility for medical center personnel. The dormitory facility is scheduled for completion and occupancy by January 2, 1964 and the research wings by late spring9 Dr. Frye concluded.
