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Blood Drive Washington Hospital, Duke Enter Jq Support Mutual Educational Agreement Scholarships The Medical Center has entered into an educational agreement with the Doc tors Hospital in Washington, D. C., as part of Duke's continuing program to share its knowledge and resources with other com munities and institutions. "The agreement," said Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice-president for health affairs, "will enable our students, faculty and staff to observe a working model of a health care delivery system in a large met ropolitan setting-a model which we have not heretofore observed in our relation ships." "In turn," he added, "it will provide educational opportunities for physicians and staff at Doctors Hospital through the availability of Duke's educational and medical research programs." Under the agreement, Duke medical students may elect to spend time working at Doctors Hospital on a non-credit basis, as they do at other hospitals now. "It is hoped," Dr. Aniyan commented, "that on a department-by-department ba sis, links can be developed for an ex change of faculty from Duke and physi cians from Doctors Hospital. Both have something to learn and something to teach." Doctors Hospital is a private, eleven- story, 323-bed hospital, located three blocks from the White House. It is a part of a large complex including four high- rise medical office buildings which house approximately 365 physicians. It serves mainly adult medical and sur gical patients on nine patient floors which include modern intensive and coronary care units. The hospital also has an emergency service, employe health service and an outpatient department. The hospital admits more than 10,000 patients annually, has an average patient stay of 11 days and performs almost 7,000 operations each year. Research opportunities are provided by the Doctors Hospital Research Foun dation which has a separate 20-member board of trustees. The hospital is also served by the Doc tors Hospital Charity Foundation, an in dependent corporation, operated solely for the administration of funds for needy patients. Founded in 1939, the hospital offers rotating internship and residencies in medicine, pathology and surgery approv ed by the Council on Medical Education of the American Association for Intern ship and Residency Training and by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Investigation into the possibilities of an educational agreement between Doc tors Hospital and Duke has been going on since December, 1967. Duke already has a number of working relationships with other hospitals. High land Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Asheville, and Sealevel Hospital in Sea- level are parts of the Medical Center. Within Durham County, Duke has affiliations with the Veterans Admini stration Hospital, Watts Hospital, Lincoln Hospital and McPherson Hospital. "In addition," Dr. Aniyan noted, the departments of psychiatry, pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology at Duke have on going daily relationships with the county health departments of Halifax and Warren counties in northeastern North Carolina. Public Relations Office Box 3354 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27706 Medical students and their wives will be giving during the next few weeks to raise $5,000 to provide scholarships for students with disadvantaged backgrounds. They'll do it by donating their blood. The purpose of the drive, according to statements released by the Blood Drive Committee of the medical student govern ment Davison Society, is to secure funds to support ghetto blacks, Appalachian whites and/or rural Indians who should begin classes at the School of Medicine in 1970. A grant from the Josiah Macy Found ation recently provided money to recruit such students, but total financial support for them cannot be guaranteed by the hard-pressed Financial Aid Office, accord ing to the committee. The students hope to raise $5,000, which in addition to existing scholarship funds, would aid in paying tuition and living expenses for several new students. "The long-range objective," according to Bob Belmaker, a member of the co mmittee, "is to give student support to the Duke administration in asking for more help for disadvantaged students from government sources and private foundations.
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