Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
SUBSTITUTE PLAN
FOR CENTER SEEN
Elaborate Medical Develop
ment at G. w. U. May Be
Undertaken Instead.

Dissolution of the tri-party agree
ment between George Washington Uni
versity, GARFIELD Hospital and the
Washington Home for Foundlings, in
the establishment here of huge medi-
cal center, and the carrying out, instead,
OF an elaborate individual development
program by the George Washington
| University Medical School, was indi-
Gated here today.
In an 18-month-old report by two
prominent medical authorities on "ths
status of the George Washington Uni
versity Medical School," parts of which
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the
university, made public today, 1t was
revealed that at least two years ago the
school was seeking fundamental facts
| upon which 1t might base its future
| course. The report, prepared by DR.. G.
| Candy Robinson, head of the Cornell
Medical Center and DIR. Allen M. Ches-
ney, dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical
School, set up and replied to four fund
amental questions
81 Is the country in need Of another
| flrSt-class new medical school, compar-
able, say to those which have recently
been established ct the University of
Rochester and at Vanderbilt?
Proper Place for Location.
~. II so, is Washington the proper
, place for the location of such q medi-
cal school?
80 If so, Is George Washington Uni
versity the proper institution to de-
velop such school?
a. If so, how should George Wash
| ington University proceed to develop
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To the first, DR.. Robinson and Dr.
Chesney replied that although this
country probably does not need any
new medical schools, there is still room
in the country for a f1rst-claSs medical
school of true university caliber, where
emphasis should be placed upon re-
search as well as teaching
AS to Washington as site for such
school. the report answered that
only special assets and opportunities
not duplicated elsewhere" would justi-
| fly the local university in the attempt
and continued with the assertion that
Washington offers exceptional oppor-
tunities some of which cannot be
duplicated elsewhere in this country
These opportunities. the report set
forth, included various Federal agen-
cies efor acquiring and distributing
knowledge, the Library of Congress
st. Elizabeth'S Hospital and Gallinger
Hospital.
Up 10 University.
The reporting medical authorities
declared, In response to the fourth
question. that George Washington Uni
| verSity is the proper institution" TO de-
velop such medical school IF the UNI
versity is willing to assume the finan-
| cial burden that the development and
maintenance of real university med
ical school entails"
Among the recommendations as to
the proper procedure was one calling
| for the construction OF an adequate
plant. another suggesting af1iliation with
Gal!inger Hospital, where adequate elm
| ical instruction is available. ard third
calling for the appointment of an out
standing medical authority to head the
| institution.
"A new building obviously is a neces-
sity," DR.. Marvin commented upon this
phase Of the recommendations. 1t is
now, frankly our job to ge. support Tor
the construction OF SUCH plant.
Stronger affliation with Galllnger
Hospital already is established. DR..
Marvin declared, and the recent appoint
| ment as dean of the Medical School
of DR.. E. B. Mckinley. now director
of the School Of Tropical Medicine at
Porto Rico, provides for the third
/ recommendation.
Center to Come Later.
DR.. Marvin declined to announce"
that the agreement of 1927 under which
/ his university was to erect new build
| ing adjoining Garfield Hospital had
been definitely dissolved. That agree
mert. however. called for the erection
of the building three years after its
! signing.
Asked definitely whether the medical
expansion program now under way at
the university would permanently end
efforts to establish medical center
| in the National Capital. DR.. Marvin re-
| piled that the center will naturally
come through this program" He
| pointed out, however, that the report
of DR.. Robinson and DR.. Chesney re-
lated not to possibilities OF setting up
here "a medical center" but a first
cloes university medical school,