Experimental
Duke Pro/ecf
Begins Here
An experimental program which
is providing 11 students from small
colleges with intensive training in
the basic medical sciences is
underway this summer at the
Medical Center with the assistance
of a $77,250 three-year grant from
the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation of
New York City.
The purpose of the program,
according to Dr. Melvyn
Lieberman, project coordinator, is
to provide these students with
experience in the pre-clinical
science courses they could expect
to find in medical school.
"At the present time it is very
difficult for a student in a small-
college not associated with a
medical school to receive such
training," Dr. Lieberman said, "but
by spending a summer here, a
prospective medical student will be
able to decide if he really wants to
pursue a career in medicine or one
of the related health fields.”
The program, which includes
nine college seniors and two
students who will be freshmen at
Duke Medical School this fall, is
made up of lectures on anatomy,
physiology, and biochemistry,
participation in campus seminars,
and individual laboratory research
with supervision of a member of
the medical faculty.
Dr. Lieberman explained that
the program was organized
primarily to provide students from
minority groups with an
educational opportunity not
previously available to them.
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"thanks to the NURSES-^une 10 was "Registered Nurse Day" at
Duke Hospital. Some 300 R.N.'s received certificates of appreciation and
red roses from Hospital Director Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms and Acting
Director for Nursing Services Mrs. Verna Sticht at a special coffee hour.
The program was sponsored by Patient Care Education, (photo by Dsve
Hooks)
EKG MONITOR TECHNICIANS—Mrs. Sue Foster, R. N., seated,
explains an electrocardiogram to a group of ward clerks from Cardiology
and the Cardiac Care* Unit. The women recently completed a course
instructing them to identify abnormal patterns on cardiac monitors so
physicians and nurses can be notified if a patient gets in trouble. From
left are Ella Smith, Mattie Riggins, Cindy Minnotte, Elmarie Bynum,
Gussie Mickens, Angela Pettiford, and Maxine Bouknight. (photo by Dave
Hooks)