University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1981
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Med Center polishes Kansas doctors' skills
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kansas — The University of Kansas College of Health Sciences is providing rural kansas doctors with a way to keep up-to-date on the latest medical advances and through a program called Outreach.
Outreach sends KU medical faculty to regional health education centers across Kansas. Faculty members teach courses rural physicians request, Joseph Meek, director of the Outreach program, said yesterday.
"The basic purpose of the program is to offer courses for both doctors and laymen who want to learn about specific medical problems," Meek said.
THE COURSES can be either structured, such as those offered for physicians who need credits for license recertification, or unstructured, such as the "cardiac bingo" course taught last fall at Fort Hays State University.
"It was a course for laymen who wanted to learn about the factors that contribute to heart disease," Meek said.
All of the Outreach programs have been well received by all students, both doctors and the general public, he said.
"The unique aspect of the Outreach program is that the students tell us what courses they want and we teach them," Meek said. "Usually students are just told what courses will be offered."
A DOCTOR SHOULD not have to take the outfit and bake one of the Outreach courses he has taught.
"One of our premises is that it is important to get quality education right
into the regions where it is needed," he said.
The Outreach program was added to a Course Circuit program that has been run by the College for many years.
The Circuit Course program offers a symposium on medical topics of current interest. This program also enables the students to request the subjects they would like to learn more about.
"Our Circuit Course course is internationally recognized," Meek said. "Last year, we had a doctor come from Switzerland, and what we were doing and how we did it."
THERE IS a lot of support for these programs, especially among younger physicians, he said.
"Since they were recently graduated from medical school, the younger physicians know how quickly medical procedures change and are eager to take these courses to keep up," said Meek.
The College also offers two other programs aimed at acquaintng graduating medical students with the communities where they are needed.
In one of these programs, the Rural Preceptorship Program, medical students spend one month with several physicians throughout the state as part of the required medical school curriculum.
THE COLLEGE also runs a rural health weekend, during which medical students spend a four-day weekend in a hospital. Students with a local physician and his family.
social get-together that gives a community the chance to get acquainted with a medical student who is part of the community's needs of the community." Meek said.
SUA plays to begin Feb. 20
The second annual SUA Theater Series will begin Feb. 20 with "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," the first of three student-directed plays.
"The really unique thing about this that it's entirely run by students" Irene Carre, SUA program adviser, said. "It's an opportunity to give students the chance to see what production and direction are like."
The plays' casts are made up of students, faculty and Lawrence residents, she said.
"Charlie Brown," a musical comedy for children and adults by Clark Gessner, will be directed by Rick Rasmussen, West Bountiful, Utd, graduate student. The play will be presented at 8 p.m. Feb. 20-22 in Room 100 Smith Hall. An afternoon matinee is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Feb. 21.
Doug Weaver, Marietta, Ga., junior, will direct John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," the American play of homeless and rootless men who have nothing but each other. The play will be presented at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 and 28 at 2:30 p.m. March 1 in the Lawrence Interior, Nind and Vermont streets
Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," an insightful comedy about college students coming of age in the mid '60s, will be directed by James Olson. The production is performed at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 and 27 and March in the Lawrence Arts Center.
Tickets are available from the SUA Box Office in the Kansas Union and are $2.50 for students and $3.50 for the public. Children's discounts for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and series discounts are available.
Florida's big freeze causes nationwide orange shortage
It's peanut butter one month and oranges the next.
Florida oranges are in short supply nationwide because of the January freeze that ruined at least 20 percent of the state's orange crop. But there have been no shortages yet in Lawrence.
"Only 10 percent of the crop goes to fresh oranges," Jack Matthews of the Florida Citrus Commission said yesterday. "But many of those oranges are going to be processed as frozen juice now."
The orange shortage was cushioned by an inventory surplus at the beginning of the citrus season, Matthews said.
Matthews said that nationwide, plenty of frozen orange juice was available because oranges damaged by frost can be made to make canned juice concentrate.
While the East Coast has been hardest hit by the freeze, no shortage of fresh oranges has been reported in Lawrence.
"Twelve million gallons of orange juice are now being processed each week," he said. "Normally eight to ten million gallons are processed in a week."
"If there is going to be a frozen juice shortage, it will be in about a month when the oranges start falling off the trees."
Locally, the freeze has affected the orange juice supply for some grocers.
"We're out of stock on some frozen juice brands and Kraft fresh juice," she said. "co-manager at Kroger Super Market, Street and Naismith Drive, with Naismith Drive."
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At a Sanitary Engineering Conference at the University of Kansas, Howard Duncan, director of Kansas Bureau of Environmental Sanitation, said the state would face a difficult problem locating waste sites because of what he called the "NIMBY syndrome."
There is a critical need for more hazardous waste disposal sites in the Midwest region, an official for the Department of Health and Environment said yesterday.
Duncan proposed that a site board be established. The board would assure the selection of good management sites.
A report by the Advisory Commission on Environment, of which Duncan is a member, states, "This procedure is necessary in diminishing capability of acquiring hazardous waste management sites without public protest."
Duncan said the only hazardous waste site in Kansas, located in Sedgwick about 60 miles from its waste from within the state and 40 percent from other states.
According to Duncan, burial should be a last resort in dealing with hazardous waste.
"First, we should reduce waste generation by resource recovery." he said.
"A lot of people would say ban out-of-state waste," Duncan said.
However, he added, two courts had ruled that hazardous waste was an article of commerce and was thus intransit to the free interstate commerce laws.
If that is not feasible, the waste should be made non-hazardous when possible, he said.
Material is classified as hazardous if it is ignitable, corrosive, reactive or toxic.
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