University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 7, 1988
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Hands-on medicine offered in program
By Mark E. McCormick
Kansan staff writer
Twenty-six year-old medical student Charles Yorkes was nervous about the month he would spend working and living with a doctor and a sociologist.
"From the moment I arrived, they made me feel at home." Yoyek said. "They included me in every single family activity."
His apprehensions 16 years ago in Newton were soothed by his guests as soon as he pulled into Dr. Del Preeh's driveway.
Vickey was one of many KU medical students who were a part of the preceptorship program that was started in 1981 by Dr. Franklin Murphy. This year's program began yesterday and will run from Oct. 1.
The program offers valuable hands-on experience. Yockey said.
"For four weeks of living with the physician. I did everything the doctor did," he said. "I finally got to what study for, for eight years."
The compulsory Preceptorship program allows fourth-year medical students to work alongside physicians in smaller communities and to learn about the medical care provided in a private practice.
"I loved the family and being part of the dinner conversation," he said. "Mrs. Proheim treated me like her own son."
Yockey said he was treated like a family member during his weeks with the Preheims.
"Here a neat family that volunteered their home to a total stranger we met was the first positive experience," he said. "We visit him (Dr. Prehn) from time to time."
Yockey said he hopes to duplicate that same comfort for the medical student now under his tutelage.
Jim Baker, a medical student from Overland park, applied for and received his assignment under Yokatek at Wakeyin hospital.
"It's a homecoming of sorts," Baker said. "I spent six years here as an undergraduate. 'It's quite accom-
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or four weeks of living with the physician, I did everything the doctor did.
modating.
The Lawrence location has an added comfort for Baker, who has a wife and child in Overland Park. Instead of living with the physician, he commutes and remains on call every fourth night at the hospital.
Baker, 27, said he was worried about being separated from his family.
"I'm glad they could help me out," he said.
Baker said he figured his first day at work would be hectic.
"I expected some exhausted,
fatigued student with some horrible
lung disease," he said. "But it'
really laid back. I enjoy working with
people my own age and getting
experience."
Students also learn about office management, a skill in which most young doctors are deficient, Yockey said.
"They are totally ill-prepared." Yockey said. "They are notorious for making bad business decisions."
Fifty percent of young doctors starting a practice change within a year. Yockey said
"There's so much more to medicine than what the med school offers," he said.
The program also wants to attract doctors to rural areas, Fred Whitehead, director of the Preceptor program said.
"We're saying this is what it all about rather than this is where we want you to go. Whitehead said. "Almost all of the students saw the problems in Western Kansas. A lot of these areas underserved."
Whitehead said the program has met with marginal success.
"they seemed reluctant to go out there, but there was a big need and consequently a lot stayed." Whitehead said so, one of the longer lines of text.
Assembly delays vote on plus/minus system
By Daniel Niemi
The College Assembly yesterday delayed until Oct. 4, a decision on the plus/minus grading system for the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
William Bayne, president of Students Against the Plus/Minus Grading System and Assembly student representative, introduced the motion to delay the vote. He said the representatives chosen in the sample should have an effect on the decision and should be involved in the debate.
The system is modeled after the one being used by some KU professional schools. Teachers have the
In March, the Assembly, the governing body of the college, voted 213 to mail in ballot to adopt the plus/minus system. However, in May Alison Burnett, Assembly staff, in a positive, moved to rescind the vote.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said even if the system was approved, implementation could be delayed.
option of using the 12 point scale,
which has no A plus or F plus or
minus, or the five point scale previously
used.
"Whether the machinery around here at student records can be adjusted in time to effect this change must be answered open to question." Carothers said.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said even if the system was approved, implementation could be delayed.
"The focus shifts from education to evaluation," he said. "Would the addition of a plus or minus teach a student anything useful?"
Bayne said he opposed the plus/minus system because it didn't increase the value of education.
Robert Adams, associate dean of liberal arts, said that different computer programs would be needed to implement the plus/minus system.
From Kansas to Korea Korean hopeful for peaceful Olympic Games
Just like his fellow South Korean countrymen, Youn Young Ur is worried about the possibility of a U.S. Olympic Summer Olympic Games in Seoul.
By Mark Fagan Kansan staff writer
In fact, his concern has mounted into a two year study that has become his master's thesis.
The thesis, "Social, Political Ideologies of the Korean People as a Host of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games," contains 20 interviews with South Korean athletes, college students and Olympic and government officials to find out their attitudes about the Games.
But the main meaning, Ur said,
was terrorism.
He responded that the North
"This will be the first Olympics 12 years ago," said Ur, a graduate student in health, physical education and recreation. "It has lots of faces."
Korean government would not launch a major invasion into south Korea in the wake of the possibility of minor terrorist activity before the Opening Day of the Olympics.
"The main purpose is to disturb South Korea's hosting of the Games," Ur said. "If terrorists strike in the middle of the Olympics, it won't do the North any good." Other countries afraid to compete.
At present, 161 countries are scheduled to send athletes to Seoul, the largest number in Olympic history.
Ur expected that the North
Ur said that if North Korea were to send terrorists to Seoul, they would not be government troops.
"They're not stupid." Ur said. "If they do embark in terrorism, then they must do it to be掌握 mainland China and the Soviet Union don't want them."
Cameron Hurst, director of the Center for East Asian Studies, spent two months this summer in
Seoul. He said that attacks by underground groups, such as the Japanese Red Guard, were a distinct possibility.
"Any number of radical groups could use this forum," Harrist said, but he didn't need the stimulation of the North to attack. But we all know that if they do, North Korea will be ready to do it and do whatever you do and damn if you don't."
Security for the Games is tight. Ur said that while officials would check the identification of each person that arrived at Kimoch International Airport, and 38,000 secret guards would concentrate on securing the activity. Seul's biggest asset was the South Korean people.
"South Koreans are very anti-communist," Ur said. "They really believe that they will finish school, they'll find anybody suspicious, they'll report them. That is the most powerful part of security."
Daniel Bays, faculty adviser to
the society for East Asian Studies,
agreed that the South Korean people were indeed strong. He
speeled time in South Korea last fall.
"One does see, everywhere, a certain security presence," Bays said. "But Koreans have lived with it most of their lives. One-of-a-kind the population lives in Seoul, 33 districts of the city." Zone. These are people who have lived with the possibility of violence nearby. They adapt to it.
Ur, whose home is 10 minutes away from Seoul's Olympic Stadium, said he found a consistent pattern in his interviews interviewed for his thesis. And although it was unusual for college students and the government to agree on most issues, solidarity on college should have been expected
"The Olympics are not just done by our government; there are many others. Us, the nation, saves its politics and should be separated."
KU shares expert
Osness part of Olympic Committee
By Craig Welch
Kansan staff writer
Wayne Owens, chairman of the health, physical education and recreation department at the University of Kansas, will be traveling to South Korea today with the United States Olympic Committee.
Osmess, who is also the chairman for the Education Council of the United States and at the International Scientific Olympic Congress of Researchers in Seoul on September 14. The chairperson of the international papers for children he said.
"It focuses on the long term effects of physical conditioning on school age children; when it's too early to start training, the effects will all have on the cardiovascular system, and so on." Owns said.
There have been a lot of questions recently, as to whether early athletic training is harmful to children be said.
Ossess found no evidence that training programs would hurt youngsters if they were under no outside influence.
"But, if a parent or coach is exerting too much pressure, the child may be afraid to stop." Osness said.
Olson served on the American Alliance committee of the USOC four years ago, and then became the chairman for the Education Council.
"The Education Council is one of
the most active and productive committees associated with the Olympics," Osness said.
The council is developing a $20 million academy in Olympia, Washington for the education of athletes, coaches and the general public. After its completion, the academy will include an expositor who will offer experience in the Olympic events from the athlete's perspective.
"We hope to develop simulators for many of the events to help bring the excitement of the Olympics home to the public. Many people are unaware of what the event example, actually is." Ossen said.
Francis Wales, who works at Robinson Center, and long time friend of Ossess, stressed the need for work on an educational level.
"Wayne Omness has done lots of exercise in exercise physiology, research in exercise medicine and all over the world and has done a lot of hospital work. He deserves recognition."
One of the most exciting aspects of Oness' work with the Olympic committee is the educational benevolence that provide for children, Oness said.
One of the programs being developed by the Education Council, called "Visions of Glory", allows children to participate in the Olympic processes. One of the 22 modules of the program invites
Kerate instructor and graduate student Young U. Seul, South Korea, works on his thesis about terrorist possibilities from terrorist attacks in the US.
children to send letters to the USOC.
"We ask the kids if they think, for instance, that professional
basketball players should be allowed to compete in the Olympics. Then we ask them to send their responses to the council."
City approves more downtown parking
Additional parking on Vermont may result in changing street to two-way access
By Deb Gruver
Kanean staff under
The University of Kansas is not alone in its parking problems.
The Lawrence City Commission is in the process of improving parking in the downtown area. City commissioners voted unanimously last night to install 13 ten-hour meters, seven two-hour meters and four five-hour meters for diagonal parking on West Street from Sixth Street to Seventh Street.
The commission also considered
turning surrounding streets into two way traffic. Mayor Bob Schumm expressed concern that the flow of traffic on Vermont Street would present a problem with parking on that street.
"When you are coming up Seventh Street, making a left-hand turn, you really clip that corner." Schumm said.
Commissioner Dennis Constance said this was a good chance to see if this type of solution would work. Constance said he thought that the
commission should proceed with their plans.
Opposition was heard from Sam Pepple, the owner of everything Fiat, elicits Vermont St. Pepple ease on a footpath across Montstreet to load and unload trucks. That area will become a mixture of 10-hour parking and two-unit parking.
Although Pepple claimed the area as his loading dock, City Manager Burford M. Watson, slandered that and made woodwallee, and legal public property.
If I needed to unload there and someone was shopping downtown and parked there, I wouldn't be able to find them to move their car."
In other business, the commission voted to refer to the city attorney a $8 million claim concerning a July 12 accident. The parents of Michael Samuel are asking for the claim in his case, which was killed in the accident on 25th Street and Kasoll Drive that involved a city sanitation truck.
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