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Page 2 Duke University Medical Center, InterGom is in the Graduate School and enjoys the freedom of organizing its cur riculum to best meet the needs of the future hospital administrator rather than the requirements of a particular professional school. The pattern of the program at Duke was adopted after careful study of the experiences of other universi ties and after review and study of its own experience over the years with the certificate program. In some ways it can be described as innovating. The pattern calls for approximately 24 months of combined study and supervised experience. Students enter the Program at the beginning of the summer session and devote the sum mer period to class work and assign ments to various work activities in Duke Hospital. They are paid by the hospital for their work. Beginning with the fall semester they become full-time students and contintie as such through the spring semester. Upon completion of the spring semes ter they enter into a twelve months administrative residency which in volves supervised observation and ex perience in an actual hospital situa tion. During this period they also continue their formal class work on a one-course per semester basis at the University. The residency period is divided into six months at one of the community hospitals in adjacent cities, four months in Duke Hospital, and two months with the Duke En dowment. The assignments while with the Endowment involve rotation through several hospitals in the two Carolinas. The formal class work (36 credit hours) during the two year j)eriod in the Program includes reg ular course offerings in the depart ments of economies, political science and sociology and courses in the field of hospital administration which are specially tailored to develop under standing of the hospital as a unique enterprise and of the special environ ment in which it operates. Attention is devoted to those factors that dif ferentiate the hospital from other forms of enterprise and organized ef fort. The hospital is examined both as a highly complex operating organ ization and as a community and health agency. An effort is made to develop an understanding regarding the medi cal, political, cultural and economic influences which bear upon the hos pital and which shape its internal operations. The material is presented through lectures, seminar discussions, studies and written reports. A mas ter’s dissertation is a prerequisite for the degree. The administrative and depart mental staff of Duke Hospital and members of the Medical School faculty participate actively in the teaching. In addition there are two full-time faculty members involved in teaching and research and in the administra tion of the Program. The budget for the Program is subsidized in part by the W. K. Kel logg Foundation. This foundation has been active in the establishment and support of graduate education in hospital administration for a number of years. Duke University has now admitted two classes to this degree program. The first class of nine students was graduated this month. The second class, which is now moving into its administrative residency year has ten students. The third class has been selected and is expected to number 12 students. This is the intended maxi mum enrollment. It is the belief of the Program faculty that active stu dent participation is fundamental to education for professional administra tion and that enrollment must be re stricted to permit such participation. The Program ha,s been fortunate in having the guidance and support of an advisory committee of the Uni versity faculty representing those dis ciplines most closely related to the work of the hospital administrator. The cooperation of various academic departments has been essential in assisting the Program to reach a high level of academic standing both with in the University and nationally. The strong resources available within the University provide an unusual op portunity for a significant contribu tion by the Program to this increas ingly important profession. Supt Coxnet by Charles H. Frenzel The construction of new additions to our Medical Center has always caused either inconvenience, noise, or disruption of operations. The first major addition in 1939 which pro vided the PDC’s, Minot, Cushing and Holmes AVards was built upon a wooded area north of the hospital and did not materially affect internal or external traffic but did tie in to the existing hospital at five levels which resulted in troublesome noise to pa tients on Drake, Cabell and Sims- Williams. The 1957 addition provided new clinics, operating rooms and three new patient units but once again did not upset internal or external traffic patterns and necessitated only minoi' disruption of services in the Medical Center. The noise of construction was disturbing to patients on many ad joining units. The construction of the D & T— Gerontology—Clinical Research com plex and the connecting passage did not cause noise or operational diffi culties but did close the road in front of the Medical Center and resulted in a major change in the road system and external traffic patterns. The Medical Record Library was complete ly disrupted by the passage tie-in. As the barker in the side show often barks “you ain’t seen nothing yet,” so will be the case as we start con struction of the Main Entrance ad dition this month. This six-story ad dition will tie into five floors of the present Hospital. The noise created by this connecting building will be unpleasant for many patients on our eight patient units on the front of the building. The Medical Record Library, Business Office and Operat ing Rooms must be relocated during part of the construction period. (Continued on page 3)
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