University Daily Kansan, September 29.1983
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Study says scholarships cut physician shortage
By MATTHEW HARRISON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A research study recently conducted by the University of Kansas Medical Center has determined that a state scholarship program has helped to reduce a serious shortage of physicians in Kansas.
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, last week presented highlights of the study to the Board of Regents.
The Kansas Medical Scholarship Program, passed by the Legislature in 1977, gives medical students reduced fee costs in exchange for an agreement to practice, for a minimum period of time, in an area with few or no doctors.
"We have made tremendous strides in the area of getting family practice physicians to practice in underserved areas," Clawson said yesterday.
The study, compiled from the 1982 Physician Relicensure Survey by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts and the Department of Health, reported that:
- In the five year period from 1977 to 1982, active physicians in the state increased 22.8 percent, from 2,329 to 2,860.
- Between 1981 and 1982, the number of active physicians in the state increased by 122 or 4.5 percent. Thirty-one of these physicians were among the first graduates of the Kansas Medical Scholarship Program
Crawson said that graduates of the Med Center constitute 43.6 percent of all active physicians in the state with more than 50 percent of those physicians requiring primary care to areas that were once designated "under-served" areas.
The report said that of the physicians who graduated from the Med Center in 1973 through 1978, before the schlolarship, 20 percent set up a practice in Kansas.
In 1977, the most recent class to have completed the school's required six-year residence program, only 44 percent of UTEP-trained students stayed in
Clawson said that one reason more than 50 percent of KU medical students left Kansas after graduation was that there were only three cities in Kansas where residency work can be completed.
The three cities, Kansas City, Kan,
Wichita, and Topeka, cannot support
all of the graduates who can residency
leave, therefore, the graduates
leave, he said.
"Also, a lot of students will, after medical school, simply go out of the state. You must have something that will attract them back." he said.
"We take in over 90 percent of our students from Kansas, but the Kansas residents are going somewhere else to practice. Clawson said. "This is not hard." If you can get a retention figure above 80 percent, you are doing well."
The residency figures do not take into account the more than 1,000 medical students who participate in the Kansas program. There are waiting to graduate, Clawson said.
If the student, upon graduation, does not wish to practice in the underserved area, then the student must pay back the cost received under the program plus interest.
But Clawson said that he thought a significant number of medical students have been taught to do this.
"We can't have indentured servitude in this country." Clawson said. "They have a buy-out option and I think that the number of students that will elect to buy out will be significant. But the encouraging thing is the number of students that are not electing to buy out and are fulfilling their commitments."
Clawson said the Med Center had also increased its class size in the school and was doing everything it could to keep graduates in the state.
"We are producing approximately twice as many physicians today as we were in the 1970s," he said.
By setting up education systems around the state, the Med Center has exposed graduates to areas of the state other than Kansas City.
"In the old days, all of the doctors were educated in Kansas City." Clawson said. "Then we started requiring students to take courses in education in areas around the state."
Continental union leaders ponder possible pilot strike
By United Press International
HOUSTON — Officials of the Continental Airlines pilots union met yesterday to discuss trying to shut down the airline with a strike based on pay cuts and workload increases in a bankruptcy reorganization.
Gary Thomas, spokesman for the 18-member Continental master executive committee of the Air Line Company, said he was adjourned without a decision.
"I feel there is a lot of support for a vote to withdraw service," Thomas said.
He said a decision on the strike could come today when representatives of all 46 airline units of ALPA to consider industry-wide action.
Thomas said pilots in local meetings in Denver and Houston voted to support a work stoppage if the pilots were not able to fly to Los Angeles also not yesterday.
"We're going to talk about a withdrawal of service," Thomas said, using ALPA's code phrase for strike. "We've got to try to find a way to stop this and at the same time save our airline."
CONTINENTAL FILED ITS
bankruptcy papers Saturday
and resumed domestic service Tuesday,
飞到 25 of 78 cities with 118 of its
previous 508 flights. It recalled 4,200
of the 12,000 employees it laid off, at
substantially reduced salaries and longer hours.
Unions have branded the move as a union busting technique, and promised to file suits challenging "abuse" of bankruptcy laws Continental Chairman Frank Lorenzo said the reorganization was the only way to keep the company afloat, and at least one other airline — Eastern — was attentive to Continental's actions.
Eastern President Frank Borman this week warned employees that they must accept a 15 percent salary and pay more than the company's collapse or reorganization.
Eastern yesterday said former U.S. Labor Secretary William J. Usery was hired as chief labor negotiator and consultant.
YESTERDAY'S MEETING OF pilots drew about 200 participants and observer's, and the mood was described as angry. Last week only about 140 pilots, but only about one-third were recalled in the reorganization
Thomas said a strike could be tough.
"It depends on what these guys who are working do," he said.
"It it's ironic that one country show down an airliner and the whole world turned upside down," said Dennis, 47. A continental pilot for Airbus had been shot when he was shooting down a whole industry and nobody seems to give a damn.
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Death of subway graffiti artist prompts vigil by black leaders
Michael Stewart, 25, of Brooklyn,
died at 5:20 a.m. of cardiac arrest, said
Ballueve spokesman James Walsh An
authority in medical examiner's office
was expected.
Irate black leaders called the death 'another example of the abuse of police power' and organized an afternoon prayer vigil outside Bellevue Hospital.
By United Press International
Stewart had been unconscious since his arrest Sept. 15 by transit officer John Kostick for spraying graffiti in a Manhattan subway station.
STEWART RESISTED THE officers and was brought to Bellevue because officers said he was mentally disturbed, TA police spokesman Edward Silberfarb said.
NEW YORK - A graffiti artist who was arrested for spray painting his work in a subway and then allegedly beaten by a Transit police officer died yesterday in a hospital where he had lain in a coma since his arrest.
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Daughtry said he visited Stewart at Bellevue after the incident and saw signs that Stewart had been beaten.
The Transit Authority said Stewart had injured himself while resisting arrest and denied he was beaten. Kostick has not been charged in the case.
The family's attorney, Michael Warren, indicated he may file a lawsuit in the case. Warren said Stewart's graffiti were to be shown in a Soho gallery.
Black leaders said that he was beaten by Kostick
"EN ROUTE TO District 4 headquarters at Union Square, Stewart became violent, kicking at the officers in the car including the driver," said Silberarb farb. "When they got to the parking area, they decided to bind his feet with medical gauze. He had been handcuffed before that."
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