Medical School Expansion.

The second big news item about the Dartmouth Medical School this past month (the first being the new Dean as reported on Page 25) concerned the College's Board of Trustees decision to "approve in principle" plans to extend and enlarge the curriculum, faculty, and plant of the School.

The proposals, prepared by the Medical School Faculty at the request of the Trustees and contingent on resolving a number of problems including financing and availability of clinical facilities, call for:

(1) Increasing by more than one third (from 96 to 160) the number of medical students. This would include sixteen students in each of the third and fourth years of medical school in an experimental tutorial program leading to the M.D. degree. (The College last offered the M.D. degree in 1914.)

(2) A 25 percent increase in the "core faculty" of the basic science departments. "Core faculty" are those who are supported principally by Medical School funds, rather than outside grants. In addition, the Trustees have authorized the immediate establishment of full-time departments of medicine, surgery, and psychiatry.

(3) New construction that would represent a 100 percent increase in total space now devoted to instruction and research.

According to Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44, Acting Dean, a faculty committee has been set up to "study all aspects of the feasibility of an expanded program." This committee's report, when completed, will go to the Medical School Faculty for a vote. Any final decision must be accepted by the Trustees.