More than $6 million in new or expanded facilities will be placed into service by the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in early September as approximately one thousand students begin the 1964-65 school year.
The 34th year of operation of the LSU Medical Center will find the University's monetary commitment, physical plant and enrollment the largest in history since the center's opening in New Orleans in 1931.
The first semester of the coming academic year begins Sept. 17, following a two-week period of condition examinations, registration, physical examinations, payment of fees and general orientation.
ESTIMATES INDICATE 524
students will be enrolled in the four years of undergraduate medicine, with an entering freshman class of 140, 136 sophomores, 128 juniors and 120 seniors.
Staffing the LSU medical and surgical services of the Charity Hospital of Louisiana, the medical center's principal clinical teaching unit, will be approximately 280 intern and resident physicians undertaking graduate medical study in all the medical specialty fields.
The section of medical technology of the School of Medicine's Department of Pathology is expecting an enrollment of 120, with the senior class of 20 attending classes in the medical center, and the remainder studying at other campuses of the University in sew Orleans or Baton Rouge.
THE DEPARTMENT of
Nursing of the School of Medicine anticipates 115 students in its basic and graduate curriculum.
Enrollment of 40 graduate students pursuing masters or doctor of philosophy degrees in anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, psychology or medical parasitology, will swell student totals well beyond the one-thousand mark.
A faculty of more than 700 will be involved in the LSU Medical Center's operations during the coming academic
year, with an excess of 200 holding full-time university academic appointments and the remainder serving as members of the clinical faculty, in New Orleans and elsewhere, devoting a part of their time from the practice of medicine to lecture or otherwise instruct on a part-time basis.
COMPLETION OF two major segments of a $6.3 million building program of expansion has been realized during the past summer, including:
A $3.1 million 11-story residence hall and student center, three blocks from the medical center, provides living facilities for 337 persons, including double rooms for unmarried male or female students, as well as one, two and three-bedroom apartments for married student families.
The structure, which is located at 1900 Perdido, also contains recreation facilities and auto parking areas.
A $3.2 million project*construction of three five-story wings to the School of Medicine building, provides additional research space and a six-level off-street auto parking facility for medical center personnel. This structure, located at 1542 Tulane, is on the grounds of Charity Hospital of Louisiana.
