"Scalpel, Suture . . . " Richard Heikes and Dean Gettler, third year medical students, and Grace Bogart, student nurse, perform an operation.
Educational, Clinical, Research...
K.U.MEDICAL CENTER
Photography and text by Nancy L. Collins
Healing, learning, research. . all of these functions so vital to health in Kansas and throughout the world, take place simultaneously and continually at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kans.-a part of the University seldom seen by students on the Lawrence campus.
Primarily a training center, the Medical Center not only teaches the exacting profession of medicine, but trains nurses, X-ray technicians, medical technicians, dietitians, social service workers, occupational and physical therapists, speech correctionists, teachers of the deaf, and post-graduate doctors of medicine taking advanced training.
There are about 320 medical students enrolled,140 nurses,20 medical technicians,and 25 occupational and physical therapists. The total enrollment last semester numbered about 700.A faculty of nearly 420 takes care of the instruction duties of the school's twenty departments.
A medical library containing 33,593 volumes, 580 different journals, and numerous reprints and dissertations is located on the second floor of the Bell Memorial Hospital building and is managed as a part of the general University library.
Rooms for physicians returning for postgraduate study are provided in the Continuation Study-Student Center. Also included here are a lounge for students and physicians, the student book store, dining rooms for students and physicians, and recreational facilities.
A clinic and hospital in its own right, the Medical Center houses 600 beds. In addition, it is a research center in which hundreds of experiments and tests constantly are being made. Patients throughout the hospital wait for the results of tests being run on animals in the Medical Sciences building (see back page).
The Medical Center's worth as a clinic is demonstrated by the fact that the six story Outpatient Building has 90,000 outpatient visits a year by patients from all the counties of Kansas as well as from the trade territory.
Established in 1905, the four-year School of Medicine was made possible by grants of land in and around Kansas City given by Dr. Simeon B. Bell. The Medical Center includes the Bell Memorial Hospital, the first building on the present campus and continues to grow as the new psychiatry building nears completion.
This geiger counter is used by the X-ray department to count the iodine uptake to determine the function of the patient's thyroid. The patient is Mrs. latitha Kauffman.
Shown below is a stethophonocardiogr struction purposes. The students, we are enabled to see and hear the result breathing, heartbeat, and other phys-
Administering to the needs of one young patient is Mrs. Harold Tretbar, a 1954 graduate of the Department of Nursing.
Charles Keith and Frank Kutilek, third year medical students, examine Charles Rogers, a patient in the children's ward.