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Thursday, September 8, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Med schedule shifts
By KARYN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Beginning with this year's class, the University of Kansas Medical Center has changed back to the traditional four-year program for medical students, James Lowman, dean of the School of Medicine, said yesterday.
For about the last five years, medical students have been taken classes for 36 consecutive months to earn their degrees. The three-year program had been mandatory, but starting this year a four-year schedule is the standard program and the three-year program will remain only as an option, Lowman said.
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He students and faculty had voiced complaints about the three-year program, saying specifically that it put the student under pressure because of the great amount of information he had to absorb in such a short time.
Students did not have the summer break between blocks of study, as do the four-year students. Lovman said, but there appear to be no differences in scores of three- and four-year students.
Administrators split the current class of
200 students between the three-year program, which began in June, and the four-year program, which began this month, so that there would be a new class each year. The four-year program had been scrapped after last year's class graduated, and the four-year program totally instituted this fall, because no graduating class in May of 1980, Lowerman
Graduates from the Med Center staff the majority of the house staff in Kansas hospitals, he said, and the hospitals would receive such teachings to turn out a graduating class each spring.
DURING THE SUMMER session of
DURING THE SUMMER session of
the 120 students to fill. About 35
students from the current class elected
voluntarily to take the three-year program,
and the remaining slots were filled by
lottery, Lowman said.
The 36-month program was initiated in an attempt to reduce the amount of time from high school graduation to the earning of a medical degree, according to Lowman.
medical degree or
Lowman said that the three-year program
would probably always be offered as an
elective schedule.
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