Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1949 — Page 3
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grab | long before they've finished medical school. Some hospitals aren't getting them and this can mean a slackening in the long night hours of vigil on the critically ill or injured.
schools are running about $18
million a year in the hole. "Budgets of U. 8. medical schools total about $51 million—yet tuii“tions. lion. Average tuition is $515 but each boy's average cost to the school is $2200. Jump the tuition? That would limit medical education to the rich. -
$200 Million Cost
Dr. Smiley estimates it would{
tost some $200 million to enlarge U. 8. medical schools for the training of more students. Years ago the universities could tap ~ rich alumni for needed funds— that was before Uncle Sam’s grab was what it is today.
Medical school people dislike the|
¢ {dea of federal subsidy but they're
wondering how else the problem|
can be met. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing says he should have 227,000 physicians by 1960. "Dr. Smiley says that even stepping the Tatio u up to one doctor
per 700 persons—it's one to 710
now--we would need only 219,000 physicians, He says Mr. Ewing's call for an average annual increase in medical school output by 5 per cent is fantastic, : Only two medical schools,
Johns Hopkins and University of Rochester
, have made special ef-
"forts to train medical school] teachers.
physiology, anatomy, biochemistry — was reduced in the war "years. It takes 7 to 10 years to train such men. Today there are
many 60-year and 70-year-old
teachers in medical schools, Low Salaries Cited
Inadequate teaching salaries also are a problem. Qualified men make much léss “teacking than they could in private practice. Yet they stay on because teaching often provides opportunity for research. In the fall of 1947. nearly 20, 000 students scrambled for 6173 first-}
year places in medical schools.
Altogether they filed 56,000 applications, some applying to several schools because they knew entry : would be difficult. All schools seek the best students, of
course—in 1875 instances a boy.
was accepted by more than one medical college. Ares medical schools t00 severe in scholastic demands? It has been. argued they are—this has been a means of holding down the number of doctors.
One In Four Fail -
Well, says Dr. Smiley, only 2 few rejected were “A” students; many were “B” and “C” men. Somé “C” ‘students got into schools limiting registration to _ their own states. About 30 per cent of “C” students fail. Overall, one in four or five who start fail to finish, In better medical schools, requirements probably could be relaxed without serious impairment
". ¢1’ the quality of young doctors
produced. But this wouldn't hold for poorer medical schools. It isn't merely a shortage of doctors that’s hurting— statistically we've more proportionately than any country in the world. But poor distribution also is a
problem. Increasingly men have been reluctant: to out their shingle in remote’ or or ‘rural . ‘areas.
‘The problem of getting enough Negro doctors to care for the Negro population, acutely in need of
more. medical attention in many|
areas, is great. There are only about 4000 Negro physicians, Only 165 Accepted - ‘Yet only about 165 Negroes
were accepted in U. 8. medical}
schools this year-—75 at Heward
* Hopials Yop Internes Before Graduation To Fill Depleted Ranks
Only 5543 Sprout New M. D. in 1948; , At Teachers Seloris Als Pose Problem
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in less than $13 mil-|
The increases outlined by ‘federation would cost $652,300 of discussion
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