Monday, November 28,1977
University Daily Kansan
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Accreditation attempts to continue
Staff Writer
By NANCY DRESSLER
Failure of a KU Medical Center residency training program in Garden City to receive accreditation by the American Medical Association last week might be only a temporary setback.
"I don't think this means that it's impossible to get accreditation. We're going to continue to approach it in a positive fashion," Joseph Meek, director of KU's Health Care Outreach Programs, said yesterday.
Meek said he knew AMA accreditation would not be easy to get because of the high cost.
Garden City's program is one of four that would be established as part of the Med Center's Affiliated Family Practice Program. The program, which is part of the last's Outreach Program, was approved last spring by the Kansas Legislature.
GARDEN CITY'S program was the first to be evaluated by the AMA. Other programs are planned for Pittsburgh, Topeka and Salina.
The AMA evaluates the programs on their value as medical training programs.
Edward Jenkins, director of Garden City's program, said he was notified of the rejected request for accreditation by letter last week.
The program now will be delayed at least a year, Meek said.
Garden City's program, in St. Catherine's Hospital, will have to undergo another evaluation. The hospital was first inspected by the AMA in August.
Meek said the reevaluation could come
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next spring at the earliest but probably would not come until next summer.
Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" will be performed at 8 p.m. this Friday at the First United Methodist Church, 10th and Vermont streets. "The Creation," written in 1798, was one of Haydn's most important late works. It will be conducted by Maribeth Kirchhoff, assistant professor in the KU vocal department, and will feature Phillips Brilll. Music will be Sittler, tenor, and Augustus Pearson, bass. A 30-piece orchestra will perform with the soloists and the 55-member Lawrence Civic Chorus. Tickets for "The Creation" are $1 and are available at the door.
"A lot of the decision will be based on whether Garden City wants to continue to seek accreditation," Meek said. "If they don't, we operation, we plan to back Garden City."
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE DYKES said KU would continue to work with the Garden City hospital to correct any deficiencies so the program could be accredited.
Garden City's program would bring four medical-school graduates to St. Catherine's Hospital for their second and third years of residency training, Meek said.
In the second-year program, residents would participate in a continuing family practice program and train in various specialty areas as general surgery and internal medicine.
The residents would serve from 300 to 500 people, while the residents were in the program.
The third-year program would be similar to the second-year program, but residents would set up three-month practices in Kansas town and rotate from town to town.
Meek said that the program in Salina probably would be evaluated by the AMA during the next two months and that it probably would not have the same problems as Garden City because the Salina program had more doctors.
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