East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Medical School Makes Preparations to Open in ' 77 Opposite Page: Center: Walter Shepherd, assistant to the dean explains the new medical school to Momka Sutherland Below: Rooms in Ragsdale Dorm have been renovated for the Medical School This board room was two dorm rooms. Above: Left: Dr, William E, Laupus, dean of the medical school. Above Right: Plans for the new hospital include a teaching facility for the ECU Medical School Left: Pitt Memorial Hospital nears comple- tion. Medical School 29

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There has been much pro- gress made at the ECU Medical School, according to Dr. William E. Laupus dean of the school. The accrediting officials were very positive in a February visit. The consultation visit request- ed by the medical school was an informal visit of the commit- tee so suggestions and com- ments could be made concern- ing future progress according to Laupus. The visit was one of several that we will have, said Laupus. There is a standard procedure for achieving accreditation. First there is a consultation visit. When the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) feels we are ready they will conduc ' a site accreditation visit. After the site visit the com- mittee will make a presentation to LCME which meets about four times a year. The LCME will make a recommendation for pro- visional accreditation and will set a date to open the school and establish the number of students to enroll. The provisional accreditation rating is standard for all medi- cal schools, said Walter Shep- herd, assistant to the dean. All new medical schools receive pro- visional accreditation until they graduate their first students. After that the LCME will conduct another visit and then determine final accreditation. The consultation members were quite impressed during their recent visit. We had pro- gressed much further than they had thought we could since their visit last year, said Shepherd. There are three areas which must be completed before the site visit, said Laupus. These are the residency training pro- gram, our doctorate (Ph.D) pro- gram and faculty recruitment. The consultation staff found the facilities quite adequate. We had to receive special permission to establish a PhD program as the University of North Carolina Board of Gover- nors had placed a moratorium on all program expansion. 28 Medical School

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Since ECU did not have an existing program we had to wait until the Board of Governors would approve it before we could establish a program. The ap- proval came in their recent meeting. All medical schools must have residency programs. Our first residency program which will be in family medicine should be approved in the summer of ' 76, said Laupus. ' Once the residency program has received accreditation it wil |be possible for us to provide practicing doctors within a year, according to Shepherd. We have had inquiries from residents who would like to finish up their final year in our program. We have hired approximately half of the necessary faculty and expect to have the remain- der hired by early summer, said Laupus. Because we had a one year program we had a staff of 13. All of those people will be teach- ing in the new medical school. However we need department heads for each of the 13 depart- ment and additional faculty for those departments. As these department heads will also be chiefs of staff in their particular area at Pitt Memorial we have had to work with the hospital and local phy- sicians in recruiting the doctors, said Sheperd. We will also be using faculty from Allied Health and the School of Nursing for the teach- ing program. In the basic sciences six fac- ulty members have been hired. Dr. David L. Beckman, from Uni- versity of North Dakota School of Medicine has been appointed as Professor of Physiology. Dr. Edward M. Lieberman from Bowman Gray School of Med- icine has been hired as an Asso- ciate Professor of Physiology. Dr. R. Frederick Becker, a noted anatomy professor from Michi- gan State will also be on staff. Dr. John Yeager, also from Mich- igan State, will be an assistant professor in Physiology. Dr. Alphonse J. Ingeniot, an associate professor of pharma- cology from the Albany School of Medicine, and Dr. Thomas M. Louis, an assistant professor of anatomy from Oxford, will be on the staff. 30 Medical School New Faculty Hired for Medical School