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HELPING OUT — Some 55 youths, aged 14-18, are serving as junior volunteers this summer, according to Mary Daugherty, coordinator of volunteer services. At left, Robin McNeil makes a bed on Strudwick Ward. She is devoting a lot of her vacation time to her volunteer work just as she did last summer when she worked the most hours of any junior volunteer. Below, 14-year-old Margaret Matthews gives change to a customer at the hospital snack bar (red zone, first floor), where she is working two days a week. fPhotps by Parker Herring) Professional news Drs. James Bobula and Stephen Gehlbach, assistant professors of community and family medicine, recently conducted a workshop on evaluation of family medicine residents and residencies. This was the third in a series of four workshops sponsored by Project AKTion, a federally funded consortium of family medicine residencies in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. Fifty faculty from the three state region attended the workshops in Louisville, Ky., on July 27-29. Dr. David W. Scott, associate professor of immunology, was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies held in London, Ontario, June 20-23. He presented a symposium talk on "Role of IgD in Immunologic Tolerance" and participated in workshops on B cell differentiation and cellular collaboration. Two members of the staff of the medical center's Office of Public Relations have been elected to the board of directors of the Durham Public Relations Society. They are Joe Sigler, director, and John Becton, staff writer and editor of Inlercom. Summer camp . . and when he said I was over weight, I decided to get the opinion of a more qualified physician." (Coniinutd from page 1) urine testing and proper hygeine and dietary principles. In addition, members of the medical staff are available at all activities for the treatment of hypoglycemia or minor injuries. Medical supervison includes nightly cabin rounds at midnight and 3 a.m. to test for noctural hypoglycemia. The staff members shine a flashlight at the closed eyes of each camper. As long as the child squints or otherwise avoids the light, there is no need to rouse him or her to take steps to avoid hypoglycemic coma. Duke well represented Most of the medical staff members are from Duke, including Dr. Kenneth Lyles, a fellow in endocrinology, Debbie Siegler, a physician's associate (PA) in neurosurgery, and Julie Thurlow, pediatric dietician. Dr. Jay S. Skyler, former assistant professor of medicine here, is co director with Ellis. Claudia Beatty and Fran Leibovitz, serving as director of dietetics and team nurse, respectively, also are former Duke staff members. Rounding out the Duke representation on the medical staff are medical students Linda Abbey, Jean Guyton, Margaret Higham and Mike Rocco; PA students Robin Hall, Bruce Bennett, Joseph Conrad, Tom Hickey and Bruce Koch; and pre-med student Louise DeBoer, all serving as cabin clinicians. NCME program Tlie Network for Continuing Medical Education program which is being shown each Friday and Wednesday at 1 p.m. through Sept. 1 is "Edema: Its Causes and Treatment." The program can be viewed in Room M406 at Duke and Rooms D3008, C6002 and C7002 and Building 16 at the VA Hospital.
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