Veritas, Vol. 11, No. 17, May 10, 1971

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS
LETTER
For Faculty and Staff
Volume 11, No. 17	May 10, 1971
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE LAUNCHES	The UM School of Medicine
NEW PROGRAM FOR PH.D. HOLDERS is launching a unique training program designed to help alleviate the nation's physician manpower shortage by providing a two-year intensive program leading to advanced standing in medicine for holders of Ph.D.s in other scientific fields.
An announcement of the program circularized among graduate schools already has brought more than 60 applications from highly educated young men and women who are finding decreased opportunities in the biological, physical or engineering sciences.
Although the program is scheduled to start in July and is limited to 20 students, applications continue to come in, said Dr. Emanuel M. Papper, UM vice president for medical affairs and dean of the school.
“The enthusiastic response and the high quality of the applicants indicate we have found a useful way to convert an oversupply of able scientists to help alleviate the shortage of physicians," Dr. Papper said. “The program is new. There is no similar one in any medical school here or abroad. This program is added on to our present education activity and will not deprive any other student of the opportunity to study medicine."
The program was conceived by Dr. William J. Harrington, chairman of the department of medicine. Details of the program have been worked out by Dr. Harrington, William J. Whelan, D.Sc., professor and chairman of the department of biochemistry; Bernard J. Fogel, M.D., associate dean for medical education, and Dean Papper.
UM AWARDS CONTRACT The University of Miami has awarded a TO COMPLETE BUILDING $4,313,000 contract to Apgar & Markham Construction Co., Inc. of Miami, to complete the top three floors of the eight-story Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building. Although the five lower floors were occupied in August 1969, the three upper floors were left in “shell" form to be completed later. Total cost of the structure at 1600 N. W. 10th Avenue, in the UM School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital Medical Center, exceeds $16 million. The work of completing the unfinished walls, flooring, ceilings and partitions and of installing fixtures is scheduled to start May 15 and to take 12 months. Occupancy is scheduled in September, 1972. The building contains medical teaching facilities, student and faculty research laboratories, laboratory animal quarters, conference rooms and faculty offices. Space in the sixth, seventh and eighth floors of the building has been assigned to obstet-rics/gynecology, neurology, biochemistry, physiology, medicine, anesthesiology and surgery.
Dr, William R. Butler, vice president for student affairs, has been named president of the 8,000 member American College Personnel Association, which includes university and college administrators, teachers, counselors and deans.
Dr. Carl E. B. McKenry, Jr., director, Center for Urban Studies, was reelected to the board of directors of the Council of University Institutes for Urban Affairs at its annual meeting in St. Louis. UM is a founding member of the UIUA. While in St. Louis, McKenry attended an American Bar Association National Seminar on “The Lawyer and Housing and Urban Development."...
Dr. Michael J. Stolee, associate dean, School of Education, has been invited to be a consultant to the National Academy for School Executives this summer on the topic of Development of School Integration Plans. The National Academy for School Executives is the top professional in-service training program of the American Association of School Administrators...
Charles R. Estill, vice president, development affairs, gave a presentation, “The Development of a Deferred Gift Program" May 4 at the executive directors meeting of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation at the Americana Hotel, Bal Harbour...
Two books, “Vector Algebra" and “Vector Calculus With Vector Algebra," by Dr. Paul McDougle, mathematics, have been published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., Belmont, Calif....