LSU Medical Branch May Get Its First Students This Fall

              4-A Thursday, Feb. 10, 1966 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES
CLINICAL INSTRUCTION of a few
third or fourth year medical students
beginning possibly this fall in the
Shreveport Branch of the LSU Medical
School was announced yesterday by Dr.
Edgar Hull (left), associate dean of the
LSU Medical School and head of the
LSU department of medicine. He held
conferences with Dr. Charles Black,
vice chairman of the LSU-Shreveport
Medical School Advisory Committee,
and members of local planning com-mittees.
Organization of the teaching
staff for the proposed school got under
way yesterday. Dr. Hull will return in
two weeks for a meeting with the cur-riculum
planning committee. (Times
Photo by Lloyd Stilley)
LSU Medical Branch May Get
Its First Students This Fall
By CAROL HOWK
Of The Times Staff
Teaching of students at the
proposed Shreveport Branch of
the LSU Medical School may get
under way this fall with the
clinical teaching of a few third
— or fourth — year medical
students brought to Shreveport
from New Orleans.
The instruction of upperclass
students can be begun early be-cause
of availability of students
and teachers, but first-year med-ical
students cannot begin work
in Shreveport until a building to
house teaching of basic science
is constructed and the neces-sary
instructors are on hand,
said Dr. Edgar Hull, associate
dean of the LSU Medical School
and head of the LSU depart-ment
of medicine.
Dr. Hull was in Shreveport
yesterday meeting with members
of local committees to plan the
school and with Dr. Charles
Black, vice chairman of the
LSU-Shreveport Medical School
Advisory Committee.
Regular classes are not sched-uled
to begin until 1969.
Dr. Hull said that medical
school officials are considering
bringing to Shreveport some
clinical teaching of third — and
fourth — year students or both.
Clinical teaching — the instruc-tion
of medicine with the use
of patients — is accomplished
in small groups in the New Or-leans
school. Dr. Hull said he
anticipated having about a fourth
of such a group in Shreveport i Heinz Faludi. chairman of the
committee, to discuss general
aspects of the curriculum.
He also made patient rounds
at a time.
ORGANIZE FACULTY
Organization of the teaching
staff got under way more fully
yesterday, with active teacher
recruitment to begin immediate-ly
Dr. Hull said that initially
most of the teachers would be
personnel on the Confederate
Memorial Hospital staff.
Also, medical school officials
are beginning to organize some
of the clinical departments nec-essary
to carry out teaching
this fall, selecting heads of de-partments
and teachers.
"We plan to use to the fullest
the teaching abilities of people
in this area, which is not done
in many other medical schools,"
Dr. Hull said. "Because of the
effective teaching and training
program already carried out
here (at Confederate Memorial*,
we have an excellent faculty for
the clinical teaching staff."
On his return in two weeks,
Dr. Hull will meet with the full
curriculum committee set up by
the Shreveport Medical Society
for development of the school
to lay specific plans about such
things as subjects to be taught
each year, the number of hours
to be allotted per subject, which
subjects are to be required and
what electives are to be offered.
"We are planning to have a
curriculum which will perhaps
be more flexible than that of
any other medical school in the
country," he said.
He met veslerdav with
with Dr. Ike Muslow, adminis-trative
head of the Confederate
Department of Medicine, as a
review of part of the regular
training program of interns and
residents.
Dr. H. M. Redetzski, professor
of pharmacology at the LSU
School of Medicine in New Or-loans,
accompanied Dr. Hull 10;
Shreveport to hold a clinical
conference with the Confederate
Hospital Department of Medi-cine.