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Duke University Medical Center
VOLUME 24, NUMBER 8
FEBRUARY 25,1977
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Other
Income 1*
Endowment.
IncoTO 2«
Univenity .
Support 4*
Tuition
and Fees* 5*
Non-Covemment
Gifts and Grants 8*
Medical
Practice 14*'
The Medical School Dollar, 1975-76
Revenue
Government
Grants and
Contracts 66*
Student
Services 1*
'^Library 1*
• Appropriations 3*
StudentAid 3’
General
Administration 4*
.Plant
Operations 6*
With Inflation^ Decreasing Support
What Goes Up Is Tuition
*Numberolstud«iitt: MD
PhJ>.
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Departmental
' Instruction 27’
Sponsored Multi-
’’Fiirpose Programs 6*
Research
>-Training
Programs 15*
Sponsored and
Separately
Budgeted .
Research 33*
By Joe Sigler
Declining levels of federal support
of medical education keep people up
nights at medical schools across the
country.
Add to that fluctuations in the
invetments market — if part of the
school's revenue is from endowment
as Duke's is — and that provides
another unsettling element.
Then stir in some steady inflation
that eats away at the value of the
dollar and forces costs up because
more dollars must be spent just
attempting to stay even.
Something Has To Go
In a state of affairs like that,
something has to go. And one of the
things that has gone in medical
schools is tuition. Up.
Duke continues to be in a
favorable position compared with
many other private medical schools,
but nonetheless tuition here has now
climbed to $5,050 for first-year
students next year.
It's a state of finances that has
Fifty-two Chances To Express An Opinion
The first three of 52 sessions of the
Employee Opinion Survey will take
place in the Hospital Amphitheater
next Saturday, March 5.
The sessions, which will be about
one hour long, will continue through
the following Saturday, and have
been arranged at hours ranging from
7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. to provide
convenient times for all medical
center bi-weekly employees to
participate, according to Richard
Peck, administrative director of
Duke Hospital.
Peck said he hoped that as many
people as possible who would be
working Saturday or Sunday would
take advantage of sessions scheduled
for those days, since there will be a
larger number of employees on duty
during the other days.
He further noted that the sessions
scheduled for 7:30 a.m. and 10 p.m.
have been designed for third shift
people in particular.
"Since patient care requirements
usually don't allow people on this
shift to get away, they can either stay
over or come in early for the survey,
and those that do so will be paid for
the additional time," he said.
Peck pointed out that these times,
however, were not exclusively for
third shift employees.
Supervisors and department heads
will pick up cards for various
sessions, based on the convenience
of their employees.
Employees will receive cards on
Thursday or Friday of next week.
Peck said. And he added that if the
time specified is not convenient, one
should notify his or her supervisor.
Four sessions have been scheduled
for MS 1, Nanaline H. Duke Building,
(Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m.). "These are
especially for people in the Eye
Center and research park area, so
they don't have to come to the
hospital," Peck explained.
Similarly, two sessions
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everyone concerned — students,
faculty, and administrators — and
the medical school administration
has had several meetings with
students on the subject.
"Tuition is of interest to many
people, not only the students," Dr.
Ewald W. Busse, dean of medical and
allied health education said, "and we
thought that others also might want
to know something about the factors
that influence increases in tuition."
Df>esn't Cover Costs
One misapprehension people
have, Busse said, is that tuition
covers the cost of a student's
education. "If tuition were designed
to do that," he added, "the Duke
tuition would be between five and
six times higher than it is."
In 1971-72 Duke participated with
11 other medical schools in a study of
medical education financing
conducted by the Association of
American Medical Colleges
(AAMC). At that time, Busse said,
the cost per student of
undergraduate medical education in
the 12 schools ranged from $16,300 a
year to $26,400 a year.
"The study indicated that the
annual per-student cost of
undergraduate medical education at
Duke at that time was $24,100,"
Busse said. "Tuition that year was
$2,250."
Bernard McGinty, director of
Medical Center Financial
Management, noted that tuition
increases were relatively small in
those years. It was up to only $2,900
by 1974-75.
(Continued on page 4)
Something Old, Something New
This month is an anniversary for Intercom. We're entering our 24th year
of publication.
For the sake of convenience we change volume numbers with the first
issue of January each year, but Vol. 1, No. 1 of Intercom actually came out in
February of 1954. Intercom was founded and published by the Duke
Hospital Auxiliary and originally came out every other month.
People don't really make much of 24th anniversaries, and we're not
either. But next year, when we reach our quarter-century mark, we're
planning some special things for our readers.
In the meantime, though, we're taking advantage of the romance with
y.ostalgia and we're introducing a new feature in Intercom with this issue.
It's called "Looking Back" and we'll be doing exactly that, looking back in
our early issues of Intercom and preparing a column of nostalgia now and
then.
It's interesting to us pulling this information together. We hope you'll
like it too.
TAKING A BREAK—Alisa Smith, a junior in the School ot Nursing, enjoys the new
bench between the nursing school and Hanes House. The bench was donated by the
Class of 1976 and other contributors in memory of Laurie Gilman, a classmate who
died in November 1973. The outdoor memorial was chosen t>ecause the Mt. Kisco,
New York, student loved the outdoors. It bears the inscription, "She felt, as if she'd
found a world all her own," a line from one of Laurie's favorite poems. (Photo by Ina
Fried)