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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Evolving KU Medical Center to Expand to Wichita
By EARLYNNDA MEYER
The University of Kansas Medical Center offers a broad range of educational programs in the health professions, including degree programs in medicine, nursing, and physical therapy and certificate programs in medical technology and inhalation therapy.
Vice chancellor for Health Affairs is William Rieke. He is responsible for overseeing affairs of the Medical Center in the role the hospital plays as an educational institution, a large metropolitan treatment facility and as a center for research.
IN ADDITION, seven deans are associated with the hospital. The deans are: research, Paul Schoerb; Wichita State University branch, Cramer Ranch; faculties and academic affairs, Kerrmut Kranz; Dixman and admissions, Dwight Muford.
The vice chancellor now has one associate and three assistant vice chancellors to aid
According to Charles Brennan, assistant to the vice chancellor, 16 junior medical students will begin clinical service training at the University of Chicago branch of the university in January 1974.
Rieke graduated with honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine. Before coming to the Medical Center he served as professor and head of the department of anatomy at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. His teaching experience has been in the areas of neuroanatomy, gross anatomy, radioisotope electives and cellular immunology.
The Medical Center is a 500-bed hospital. Upon completion of the new basic science facilities, the medical school will increase its enrollment to 200 students each year.
One year ago, the medical device devised a then experimental rank and file order for
REKE IS the official spokesman for the medical center. He carries final responsibility for budget assignments within the institution, is the primary liaison between educational programs in the state and the Medical Center and is an ex-officio or regular member of all hospital, staff, school or administrative committees.
ACCORDING TO Brennan, five hospital beds are needed to adequately instruct each student during the years of clinical training. Thus, even with the expansion, the Medical Center would lack 200 beds for teaching. Hence, the Wichita State University branch.
time course of study.
calaurate physician's assistants program. The proposed one-year program would be open to those who may or may not be registered nurses, but "certainly those accepted would be required to have a strong science background."
Students who go to Wichita will work at Francis Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital or the University of Chicago.
The department of obstetrics and gynecology currently is training nurse clinicians in a certificate program, Brennan said.
THE HEALTH Professional Loan and Scholarship Program, funded by the federal government, has been a major source of money for students. Officials at the Medical Center have learned that this aid program will be phased out in 1975.
BRENNAN SAID that the Medical Center was now interested in developing a bac-
Students interested in admission to programs offered at the Medical Center should contact Dwight Mulford, dean for admissions or Walter Gehlbach, registrar or information on financial aid, contact Frank Teller, director of student financial aid.
Recruiting for the heads of the clinical departments was recently completed. Projected plans call for 112 students to be at the Wichita branch by 1977.
interest. Required courses include chemistry, biology, physics and English.
The nursing program requires 60 semester hours of credit in an accredited liberal arts college. Required courses are English, social sciences, psychology, theories of child development,
chemistry, microbiology and biology or zoology.
Financial assistance for both medical and nursing students is available. Monetary awards in the form of scholarships and loans are available to students' need for funds to pursue a full-
Requirements for admission to the various areas of study at the Medical Center are wide and varied.
SPECIFICALLY, candidates for the doctor of medicine program must have a baccalaureate degree. Students are encouraged to major in any field of personal
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