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CARL ALPERT
The Medical School of Tomorrow
HAIFA — The students who
graduate from medical school in
the next five to ten years will
be practicing medicine in the
21st century! That simple truth
may well have been one of the
stimuli to the launching at
a bold and exciting venture in
medical education which has
gotten underway here in Haifa.
Medical practice is becoming
more and more closely associ
ated with fields of science
which would seem to be quite
remote from study of anatomy
or pathology. Heart pace-maker,
artificial kidneys, electronic in
strumentation today play a role
in the medical world which
necessitates the closest possible
relations between the physician
on the one hand, and the engi
neer/technologist on the other.
Hence it is that Israel’s third
medical school, opened here
last year, is now formally asso
ciating with the Technion, Israel
Institute of Technology, as an
organic affiliate.
It is an experiment which will
be watched with the closest in
terest in many parts of the
world. For their first three
years the students will receive
the basic education provided by
Technion, with emphasis on
technology and the sciences.
Some may thereafter specialize
in bio-medical engineering and
receive their bachelor’s degree
in that field. Others will pro
ceed with the clinical studies,
specialized medical subjects and
hospital work.
The end product in the one
case will be engineers with a
good training in medical sub
jects, and in the other case
physicians who will not be
strange to electronics, hydrau
lics and mechanical engineering.
One glimpse into an operating
theatre serves to confirm that
this is the direction in which
the medical sciences are mov
ing.
The Technion-Haifa Medical
School already has an enroll
ment of 90 students, having be
gun with upper classmen —
Israelis who were brought back
from studies abroad. Next fall it
will begin with a firs f -year class
of 54 at the Technion campus.
In the meantime the school is
preparing clinical facilities in
the 40-room old stone building
which once housed the St. Jos
eph de Carmel Mission School.
It is located directly alongside
the Rambam Hospital which,
when its new wing is completed,
will have 1,000 beds. The staff,
drawn from local hospitals and
other cities, already numbers
120.
Israel’s two other medical
schools are offering full co
operation in this effort to an
ticipate a dire shortage of doc
tors in the years immediately
ahead. The Hadassah-University
Medical School in Jerusalem ac
cepts 80 freshmen each year and
has an eniollment of close to
500. The^ Tel-Aviv Medical
School accepts 72 first-year stu
dents annually, and its total en
rollment is only slightly less.
Simultaneously the Technion
is expanding facilities on its
own campus, especially in biol
ogy. The life sciences are im
portant to the national welfare,
and require the services of engi
neers and technologists, no less
than aeronautics, agricultural
engineering or hydrology.
Haifa scientists, therefore,
are boldly challenging the tra
dition that a medical school
must be located on the campus
of a liberal arts university, and
that a first degree in the hu
manities must necessarily make
for a better doctor. The interdis
ciplinary relations between
medicine and engineering on the
Technion campus, it is believed,
will train the kind of graduate
who will be better equipped to
service his patients and human-
ahead.
Dean of the new Medical
School is Professor David Er-
lick, Chief of Surgery at the
Rambam Hospital, whose persis
tence and far-sighted vision
have brought it into existence.
iBat Ami Hadassah
Tea August 29
Bat Ami Hadassah will en
tertain new and prospective
members at a tea on Sunday
afternoon, August 29, at 3 p.m.
at the, homg of Mrs, _Sidney
(Alice) Rich, 1320 Lenox Cfr-'
cle, N. E.
Anyone interested in be
coming a member of Hadassah
is cordially invited. Mrs. Harry
Loeb, 875-7803, is in charge of
phone reservations.
BBYO Council
Squaring Off
For New Season
Atlanta Council B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization kicks off
another year of their MIT and
AIT membership training pro
gram for new members in
grades 8-12th.
Registration will take place
Sunday, Sept. 12 at 2 p. m. at
the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center for anyone interested in
participating.
Atlanta Council of the B’nai
B’rith Youth is composed of
about 1000 members making up
38 chapters. The Jewish youth
membership work in the fields
of personal, Jewish and com
munity service.
For more information contact
the B’nai B’rith Youth Organ
ization office located in the At
lanta Jewish Community Cen
ter, 1745 Peachtree Street, N. E.,
or call 876-0343.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bemath of
Atlanta announce the birth of
a daughter, Evette Jennifer, on
June 28. Grandparents are Mr.
»nd Mrs. Morris Antebi and Joe
$efnifth, all of .^tlanta.
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Harry Berman
Harry Berman of McRae, Ga.,
doesn’t know it—but if the state
of Georgia is invaded by an
enemy, he may wind up leading
the “Southwest Dragoons” into
battle.
And without an ounce of prior
military training.
Well, the eventuality hasn’t
happened in well over a hun
dred years and the likelihood
is even remoter today than ever
due to certain priorities in who
leads who into ba(tlte and the
nature of military defense in
the first place.
Actually, Mr. Berman, a dis
tinguished citizen of southwest
Georgia has been honored by
appointment to the staff of Gov
ernor Jimmy Carter. He bears
the honorary title of Lteitfenant-
CWc*€a. ' * '
It is a way governors of
Georgia have for “benighting”
certain of their friends. There’s
probably a certificate for wall
hanging and there used to be a
prescribed uniform which could
be dusted off and worn to in
augural balls and such. But
now it is mostly honorary.
Meanwhile, Mr. Berman can
be at ease over that invasion
bit. It’s bean decades and decades
since it happened in Georgia
but successive heads of state
have wanted to be prepared—
if and when.
A widely known merchant,
Mr. Berman belongs to the Big
Shule in Savannah. He is a direc
tor of the McRae Chamber of
Commerce and is a member of
Rotary, Elks, Woodman of the
World and B’nai B’rith. He and
his wife have two children, one
in Augusta.
We’re there at.. Lenox Square
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