NITED STATES OF AMERICA MAY 22 '45 CONTENTS Page Text of S. 637. Report from War Department on S. 637. Inserted material: Letter from Dr. Paul C. Barton, War Manpower Commission... Memorandum by Paul C. Barton, M. D. Letter, dated April 10, 1944, to Hon. Paul V. McNutt from Frank 134 LO LO 6 77 8 Letter, dated April 12, 1944, to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey from 9 Letter, dated April 26, 1944, to the Secretary of War from Hon. Editorial entitled "The Supply of Premedical and Medical Stu- Letter from Cornell University (inserted by Senator Ellender) - 16 17 Statement by Victor Johnson, M. D., and Fred C. Zapffe, M. D. 48 Statement submitted by Lawrence L. Gourley, attorney for the American 54 III PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS TO MEET ESSENTIAL NEEDS UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a. m., in the committee room of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Capitol, Senator Edwin C. Johnson presiding. Present: Senators Johnson (presiding), Hill, Kilgore, Austin, Gurney, Revercomb, and Burton. Senator JOHNSON. The committee will please come to order. (S. 637 follows:) [S. 637, 79th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the release of persons from active military service, and the deferment of persons from military service, in order to aid in making possible the education and training of physicians and dentists to meet essential needs Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, to the extent that the President deems to be (1) feasible, (2) compatible with military operations, and (3) necessary or desirable in order to make possible the education and training as physicians and dentists of as many persons as are necessary to provide the minimum number of medical doctors and dentists required to meet the essential needs of the civilian population (especially in rural areas) and the armed forces for medical and dental services in the future, the President is authorized to provide for the release from active duty in the armed forces of men who have completed more than one year of honorable service in such forces during the present war and who have satisfactorily completed a substantial portion of the medical, dental, premedical, or predental education and training necessary to qualify them as physicians or dentists, in order to enable such persons to pursue further such education and training. The release of any person from active duty for the purposes of this section may be conditioned upon his acceptance by an accredited school and the pursuit of such education and training in a satisfactory manner. SEC. 2. Section 5 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(n) In order to make possible the education and training as physicians or dentists of as many persons as are necessary to provide the minimum number of medical doctors and dentists required to meet the essential needs of the civilian population (especially in rural areas) and the armed forces for medical or dental services in the future, the President shall, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, provide for the deferment from training and service under this Act in the land and naval forces of the United States of those men who are found in accordance with section 10 (a) (2) to be enrolled in the national medical and dental education program. The President shall provide for the enrollment, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in a national medical and dental education program (hereinafter referred to as the "program") of such persons as he deems necessary to be enrolled in such program, in order that they may be deferred under this subsection from training and service under this Act, subject to the following limitations: "(1) (A) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year premedical education and training shall not exceed eight thousand at any one time. "(B) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year pre-dental education and training shall not exceed three thousand five hundred at any one time. "(2) (A) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue second-year premedical education and training shall not exceed eight thousand at any one time prior to the end of the third month of the academic year and shall not exceed four thousand five hundred at any one time after the end of the third month of the academic year, and after the end of such third month shall not include anyone who has not been accepted for admission to the earliest subsequent entering class of an accredited medical school following the satisfactory completion of such second-year premedical education and training. "(B) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue second-year predental education and training shall not exceed three thousand five hundred at any one time prior to the end of the third month of the academic year and shall not exceed one thousand seven hundred and fifty at any one time after the end of the third month of the academic year, and after the end of such third month shall not include anyone who has not been accepted for admission to the earliest subsequent entering class of an accredited dental school following the satisfactory completion of such second-year predental education and training. "(3) No man shall be enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting him to pursue premedical or predental education and training for more than two years. "(4) (A) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year, second-year, third-year, or fourth-year medical education and training shall not exceed four thousand five hundred in each of such classes at any one time. "(B) The number of men enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue first-year, second-year, third-year, or fourth-year dental education and training shall not exceed one thousand seven hundred and fifty in each of such classes at any one time." In determining the number of men who may be enrolled in the program, the the President shall take into consideration and make due allowances for the number of physicians or dentists who may be obtained through the education and training of other persons not enrolled in the program, including veterans of the armed forces, women, and persons not qualified for military service. The limita tion on the number of men who may be enrolled in the program shall not be deemed to be a limitation on the total number of students who may be enrolled in medical, dental, premedical, or predental schools; but shall be deemed to be a limitation only on the number of men who may be deferred under this subsection who shall be in addition to students who may be obtained from other sources. Persons shall not be enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue medical or dental education and training at any schools except medical and dental schools whose graduates are acceptable to the armed forces for commissioning as medical doctors or dentists. The number of men who may be enrolled in the program for the purpose of permitting them to pursue each of the two respective years of premedical or predental education and training shall be allocated by the President among the several States on the basis of population, as determined by the 1940 census. The men to be enrolled in the program from each State for the purpose of permitting them to pursue such education and training shall be selected from among applicants within such State, in such manner as the President may prescribe. In making such selections, representatives of accredited schools which offer full-time medical, dental, premedical, or predental courses of instruction shall be consulted and their services may be utilized. No man who fails to make satisfactory progress in pursuing his education and training shall be permitted to continue to be enrolled in the program. Senator JOHNSON. Following the bill, we will insert in the record. the reports we have received from the departments. (The reports from the War Department, the Navy Department, and Selective Service, follow :) |