PEDIATRICS Vol. 5 No. 3 March 1950, pp. 552-565
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THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

AN OPEN FORUM

Editors: PAUL A. HARPER, M.D..

THE following articles by Robert L. Stearns, President of the University of Colorado, and Ward Darley, M.D., Dean of the University of Colorado Medical Center, describe the thinking which spurs members of the faculty of the University of Colorado Schools of Medicine and Nursing to participate daily in community activities. Dr. Fred A. Humphrey, President of the Colorado State Medical Society, health officacuteer and general practitioner in Ft. Collins, Cob., long interested in problems of rural medical care, presents the views of a practicing physician on community responsibilities.

As indicated by Dr. Darley, every modern medical center contributes to the community by training of personnel, by research, by setting standards of medical care. Dr. Harper's invitation for these articles, however, stems from his knowledge of the conscious attempt being made by this school to discharge its obligations. From the moment one joins the faculty one becomes aware of responsibilities which are partly those of any medical school, partly those of any state university. The state university, said President Stearns at a convocation of medical students and faculty, is only incidentally interested in improving the earning power of its students by providing good technical education; its primary aim is to educate for good citizenship and service to the community.

Interesting results stem from acceptance of this philosophy. A group of faculty members, thinking not only of their own departments or segments of their departments, but of the whole school and the whole community, are willing to reorganize drastically the curriculum.