University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 23, 1974
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Doctor Deficit Increases as Med Grads Leave State
By JEFF HILL
Kansas Stiff Ropes
The doctor shortage in Kansas is being compounded by the number of state-educated medical school students who are not prepared to state to practice, medical authorities say.
Dr. Thomas F. Taylor, president of the State Medical Society, said recently that there was a shortage, both in cities and in rural areas. In rural counties, with populations under 10,000, there are two or three doctors in each county in cities, but said, the ratio of doctors to population might be even higher than that in the rural areas.
About 35 per cent of the University of Kansas medical students return to Kansas, Dr. William O. Rieke, vice chairfor the KU Medical Center said. This is high for the Midwest, he said, but the Midwest ranks below the national average.
There has been an increase in doctors, said Rieke. The number of applications for licenses doubled last year, to 154, from an average of 70 or 80.
The problem is one of sectional movement, Rieke said. Money is not the main factor, he said, because national figures show that those involved in primary care (family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics) make better living in Kansas than in any other Midwestern state or than in most coastal states of Washington and Oregon.
The major problem at the medical center is personal preference, Rieke said. People want to leave the rural areas for areas with more cultural, educational and social opportunities. They also want to avoid proximity. They are insisted on and don't want, to have a solo practice.
As a result of these problems, various programs have been started in an effort to increase the number of medical students that stay in the state.
The 1974 Medical Center class has been increased from 164 to 200 people, said Todd Larson.
The state has increased the number of medical residencies in response to studies
that indicated that students usually stayed in the area of their residency after their training had finished, said John Conard, assistant to the Chancellor. Recently, the legislature appropriated $150,000 to create practices in the Wichita area be said.
The KU Medical Center has started new programs to educate the students about the causes and effects of cancer.
These programs, which are a part of KU's Outreach project, have been designed for both undergraduate and graduate medical students.
The undergraduates, who are required to study four weeks with a doctor before their graduation from medical school, are now being sent to some rural Kansas towns to take courses in nursing. They are for a doctor. Ninety per cent of these people liked their experience. Rieke said.
For post-graduates, residencies are being established in the state so they may live and work in small communities instead of in the cities to which they are normally sent.
Artist's Sculptures to Melt Away
By JANHYATT Kannan Staff Reporter
Last week's campus "event" was colorful and noisy. Hare Kriva devices chanted *nothing* to the crowd.
This week's happening will be one of the quietest and most unusual (streaking aside) to hit the University of Kansas for a long time.
In fact, it will be as quiet as melting ice. It will happen Thursday when Brian Lingle, a Lawrence artist, will display two pieces of sculpture on the University campus. If you want to see the works in progress, go inside the museum in the morning. The sculptures, made of 300-pound blocks of ice, will melt during the day and on into the night.
Actually, the works aren't sculpture in the traditional sense of the word. Lingle, who graduated from the KU School of Fine Arts last spring with a degree in sculpture, will stack the ice blocks in front of the northwest corner of Wescoe Harbour and the southwest hallway of Halloween. The wind, rain or whatever kind of weather that comes will do the rest.
LINGLE SAID he has been thinking about ice sculpture for two or three years.
"I am interested in how liquids flow," he explained. He said he had watched ink flow through water and was fascinated with the process. He had also collected liquids moved in and around each other.
He also has studied space and its relationship with objects.
Follow Through Audit Due by July
Swearingen has said that some employees' salaries have been paid with travel expense reimbursements for trips they never took. Malloneau said recently that she had received $364.28 for two trips she didn't take.
He said he thought ice sculpture would illustrate the flow and interactions of elements in space because the ice would be shaped by the wind and the movement of the stone.
It will be from two to three months before the audit of the Wooddawn school behavior analysis program's financial records is released. The auditor would check the comptroller's office, said yesterday.
"People are really affected as they move through space, just like water and air movement."
Kelly said she would consult with Charles Oldfather, University attorney, and William J. Argerinsher Jr., vice chancellor for research administration, before in-depth interviews to investigate the compitroller's office records is already underway, she said.
However, his first attempt several weeks ago on the third floor of his apartment "stopped work that was."
The program, which is funded by a grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and administered through the department of human development and foster care, has been charged with inappropriate behavior. Swearinger, a mother with a child in the program, and Bett Mallonee, a former employee of the program.
"THE BLOCKS MELTED where the cracks were, and each block sort of rounded
But Lingle was undaunt in his desire to try it again in selected locations on the University campus. He spent two days last week getting permission from the University Events Committee and Charles Oldfather, University attorney.
His request to display ice sculpture on the steps of Strong Hall and in the breezeway of Wesco Hall were denied because committee members thought water and mud would be tracked inside the buildings, Lindsle said.
The Lindley Hall flagship display will be made of 12 ice blocks "chaotically stacked" by the American Corps Marine Corp War Memorial by Felix Weldon, a sculpture near Arlington National Cemetery depicting the raising of the American Flag on Two Jima during World War II.
"That one ought to be interesting," Lingle said. "They'll melt together like ice cubes in water."
Announcing
KU YELL LEADER and BABY JAYHAWK
TRYOUTS
1974-75 KU Yell Leaders
Tryouts for membership to the nationally famous KU Yell Leaders squad will be conducted Thursday, April 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. in Allen Field House. Eight positions will be chosen, six regulars and two alternates. Requirements for membership are the following: male student (either graduate or undergraduate) of the University of Kansas who is regularly enrolled and has a minimum 1.8 grade point average. He must demonstrate a sincere desire to further promote athletics at the University of Kansas.
1974-75 Baby Jayhawk
Interviews and tryouts will be conducted in Allen Field House Wednesday, April 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Announcement of the Baby Jayhawk and alternate will be made the following day.
Because of the overwhelming response of KU students desiring to become the Baby Jayhawk for the coming school year, the KU Athletic Department is in charge of recruiting a new team about the position come for interviews and tryouts.
Clinics for yell leader tryouts will be conducted Tuesday (April 23) and Wednesday (April 24) of this week on the front lawn of Allen Field House beginning at 7 p.m. Routines for tryouts will be taught and questions answered.
Both the Baby Jayhawk and Jayhawk are governed and sponsored by the University of Kansas Athletic Department. There will be no Iryouts for the Jayhawk, because both of both students who occupied the position this year.
The KU Yell Leaders are governed and sponsored by the University of Kansas Athletic Department.
The post-graduate program was first established in Garden City in 1972, and another was begun in Topeka in 1973. The Garden City project didn't cost the state anything, said Rieke. All of the money was funded by community gifts.
Siebold said Great Bend, Concordia, Fort Scott, and Wichita has been considered for MOU.
Kansas State Senate, said that the legislature was very concerned with the problem and had submitted proposals to the governor. Mr. Sanders requested student pay for all the education he received unless he remained in Kansas for a required number of years. If he stayed, the debt would not increase.
Robert Bennett, president pro tem of the
The shortage in Kansas began during World War II, Riake said, when doctors became sick of the war.
practice physician, upon whom Kansas depended.
"This is a 30-year problem, and it's not going to be reversed in five," said Rieke. "It's going to be another five before we can see a change, for that is the amount of time it takes to educate a medical student. The student will need to be available for another few years. Meanwhile, the problem will get worse before it gets better."
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