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University Daily Kansan, May 2, 1983
Five people to share KU service citations
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Five people, including four KU
alumni, will receive Distinguished
Service Citation during commenceme-
ning of their significant contribu-
tions to society.
The citations, the highest awards given by the University of Kansas and the KU Alumni Association, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, during the commencement dinner in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
THE AWARDS will be given to Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.; Nolen Ellison, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Olive White, Wichita; William Kanaga, Orleans, Mass.; and Robert McKay, New York. of Representatives in 1960.
Ellison is the executive director of the Putting America Back to Work Task Force, a human resources development project of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges.
Ellison, a member of the class of 1963, holds a doctorate in administration and higher education from Michigan State University. In 1981, he received the National Award. Entered on the board of directors for the Alumni Association
Garvey, a native Kansan, is chairman of the board and director or Garve, inc. of the Garvey Foundation. She is a 1914 graduate of Washburn University.
Garvey was responsible for initiating the Herbert Howard Presidential Library.
KANAGA, A 1947 graduate of the School of Engineering, is chairman of the worldwide accounting firm Arthur Young International. He is also the regional vice president for the Alumni Association.
Kanaga has served as chairman and director of the 200,000-member American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta social fraternity.
McKay, a 1940 graduate of the School of Business, in director of the Institute of Judicial Administration in. New York. Edited by Richard A. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.
McKay, a Yale Law School alumnus, is the former dean of the New York University School of Law and is the chairman-elect of the American Bar Association's legal education and bar admissions council.
The Distinguished Service Citations were established in 1941 to honor outstanding achievements of KU graduates and former students. The University began recognizing non-alumni in about 200 citations have been given.
Dole, a member of the class of 1945, has been a statesman for nearly three decades. He has been in the U.S. Senate since 1968 and is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. He has also served as Chairman and chairman of the Republican Party.
Foreign med schools attract Americans
HE BEGAN HIS political career as a state representative for Russell County while a law student at Washburn University. After graduating in 1952, he served four terms as county attorney before being elected to the U.S. House
By United Press International
David Herrz is in Guadalajara,
Mexico, because he says nothing will
stop him from achieving his dream to
become a doctor.
Herzog, 24, of New York City, said he lacked the grades for a New York State medical school. He re-applied after working in leukemia research in a New York hospital but was again turned down.
"I decided I wasn't going to be stopped, so I came down here." Herzog said. He is one of 1,800 U.S. and Canadian students with the same dream studying at the same school. Most tell very similar stories.
IN ALL, there are believed to be at least 12,000 U.S. students studying medicine abroad. In 1980 the General Accounting Office put their number at 10,000 to 12,000, compared to 16,000 medical students in the U.S.
"The number of U.S. citizens studying medicine abroad and returning here has been increasing for the past few years," said Arthur Osteen at the American Medical Association in Chicago. One estimate says U.S. students abroad up close to 40 percent of all U.S. medical students.
Now, however, the students say new barriers are being erected on the foreign route to U.S. medical practice.
"We're getting thrown into the same category as foreign doctors," said Herrero. "The past year the AMA has been in a crazy climbing down . . . trying to make it harder."
THE REASON is simple, the students say. The former shortage of doctors in the United States has ended. There is talk of a glut by 1990. The number of U.S. students from foreign med schools annually seeking certification for residencies in U.S. hospitals increased four-fold to more than 2,000 between
U. S. students studying overseas face stiff qualifying exams at home and tougher requirements in gaining cov- erences in hospitals to complete their residence.
All graduates of foreign medical schools seeking U.S. residencies today take a one-day examination. Starting in July 1984, there will be a two-day exam conducted by the Education Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates. A private, independent agency, the ECFMG was set up for the purpose by the AMA and state medical and hospital associations.
One reason for the stiffened requirements is a 1981 position paper adopted by the Executive Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges. It found foreign-chartered schools "do not provide a medical education comparable to that obtainable in the United States."
DESPITE THIS, authorities at the Autonomous University in Guadalajara say 90 percent of their American graduates eventually pass medical screening exams. They say 4,800 of them are in medical practice, hospital residency or have fellowships in the United States.
Another center of foreign medical study for U.S. students is the Philippines, where a spokesman for the ministry of education in Manila said that many students studying in that country are enrolled in medical and dental schools.
A group of second-year American students interviewed at Far Eastern University in Manila they believed in making against foreign-trained doctors.
31-year-old student from New York City, "We've all got, or soon will have, applications with hospitals in the United States. We don't want some hospital administrator reading about our criticisms of the establishment and then recognizing our names on an application."
They declined to be identified. Said a
THEY COMPLAINED that transferring to U.S. schools after two years study abroad has become increasingly difficult with an annual world quota of only 200 allowed. They said that most now were studying the full four years of medical school and that the curriculum was as good as in the United States although, for lack of equipment, the clinical experience was not.
They cited as reasons for studying in the Philippines the comparative ease of gaining entrance and the low cost; $1,000 for a year's tuition compared to $6,000; $20 for the same textbook that costs $75 back home.
"Some 20 percent (of Autonomous graduates) use Spanish in California practice," said Jack Christensen, a Californian who recently graduated. He is working in the university's San Antonio, Texas, office as a liaison while he starts to start a his fifth year residency program in the United States.
He said that 90 percent of Guadalajara graduates eventually passed the current ECFMG exam for accreditation. He also noted that four semesters of medical training.
ALEJANDRO ACEVES, dean of foreign students at the university, said higher tuition for foreign students — $10,000 for a first-year foreign student.
— "allows us to have lower tuition for Mexicans."
In Guadalajara, authorities give several reasons why their students have done comparatively well in
winning U.S. residencies after graduation.
One is a program in which the American students attend several five-week clinical training programs in the United States in their third and fourth years. Fifth-year students are placed in U.S. hospitals for training.
ANOTHER IS THEIR familiarity with Spanish. For a Mexican medica degree, they must complete a sixth year of social service in Mexico Central America or a Spanish-speaking area of the United States.
Students gain experience in 11 clinics, independent of the Autonomous, in poor neighborhoods arounc Guadalajara, some funded and run by the American medical students themselves.
Another country to which American medical students flock is Italy. The Fulbright Commission estimates 1,000 Americans are studying medicine
"In Italy we have open admissions in the medical schools and the tuition is very low," said Maria Teresa Gemmari, an Italian for her Italian's. Fulbright Commission office.
The story differs in other European countries, which have fewer students. Taken together, however, the numbers are significant: 360 in Spain, more than 200 in France, 143 in Belgium, and 60 in Great Britain.
HOWEVER, THE costs are higher than in Italy. $3,000 to $5,000 in Belgium, for example, where there is a program compared to four years back home.
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"Not only is it less expensive, but our standards are among the best in Europe and probably anywhere in the world," said Catherine Gossens, the registrar at Brussels Free University, where 65 Americans study.
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