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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3
JANUARY 22, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Dr. Bulger Fills New Post
Allied Health Director Appointed
Allied health programs
at Duke have received a
big boost with the appoint
ment of Dr. Roger J. Bul
ger as associate director
of medical education for
allied health.
Dr. Bulger assumed his
^ new position recently.
In announcing the appointment.
University Provost Dr. John 0. Blackburn
said that the new post, designed to
strengthen and facilitate cooperation
among Duke's numerous allied health
training programs, was approved by the
University Board of Trustees upon
recommendation of the Medical Center.
Bulger, formerly assistant dean for
clinical affairs at the University of
Washington in Seattle, is administratively
responsible to Dr. Thomas D. Kinney,
director of medical education. He holds
academic appointments at Duke as
professor of community health sciences
and associate professor of medicine.
In addition to his Duke positions,
Bulger was named associate chief of staff
for education at the Durham Veterans
Administration Hospital and will oversee
construction and organization of the
VA's $500,000 education wing now
underway.
The new associate director said he
hopes to stimulate flexibility and
mobility within the allied health fields.
"A University like Duke has the
capacity to devise and try new ideas in
allied health education," he explained.
"We want to be able to analyze the
effectiveness of the programs in providing
the type of health workers the
community and the nation need."
He will have responsibility for Duke's
new bachelor of health science degree
recently approved by the Board of
Trustees.
Bulger was appointed to his position as
assistant dean at Washington in 1967, the
same year he became medical director of
the University of Washington Hospital.
He graduated from Harvard University
in 1955 and then spent a year as the
Lionel de Jersey Harvard Fellow to
Emmanuel College at Cambridge
University in England. He received his M.
D. degree from Harvard in 1960.
Following an internship and residency
at the University of Washington, Bulger
held National Institutes of Health
traineeships in infectious diseases, renal
and metabolic diseases, and clinical
microbiology.
He was named assistant professor of
medicine at Washington in 1966 and
promoted to associate professor in 1969.
Bulger's special research interest is
infectious diseases and his technician at
the University of Washington, Kathy
Nielson, has moved to Durham to assist in
setting up a laboratory at the VA.
Bulger is a member of the National
Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards and is a consulting editor for
both the Annals of Internal Medicine and
the American Journal of the Medical
Sciences.
He is married to the former Ruth Ellen
Grouse of Minneapolis, Minn., and they
are the parents of two daughters. Faith
Anne, age 5, and Grace Ellen, age 4.
Duke To Offer Bachelor’s Degree
In Several Health Science Fields
With the rising interest in better health
oare for all Americans, the country's
medical system has found itself
hard-pressed to supply enough manpower
to meet the demand for health services.
One of the most urgent problems is
the shortage of professionally trained
people in the allied health
fields-technologists, technicians, and
medical assistants of all sorts.
The Medical Center has announced
plans to offer a new incentive to young
people who enter the wide-open
paramedical fields—the opportunity tc
get a college education while they learn
professional skills.
The program is built around a new
degree, the Bachelor of Health Science,
approved by the Board of Trustees at its
last meeting.
Two of Duke's current paramedical
programs, the widely lauded Physician's
Assistant Program and the medical
technology course, along with a proposed
new program in radiologic health science,
are expected to be the first affected by
the new degree.
In proposing the new degree program,
a faculty committee reported that "There
is a clear local and national need for
persons educated in the health sciences,
and Duke University is in a position to
contribute measurably as a valuable
source of professional manpower."
in order to earn the B.H.S., students
will have to have completed two years of
general undergraduate college work at the
time they enter one of the allied health
• programs. At the end of the professional
part of their education at Duke, they will
be awarded the bachelor's degree.
A student will not have to be a Duke
undergraduate to qualify for entrance
into one of the B.H.S. programs, but he
will have to meet Duke's general
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