University of Oklahoma - Sooner Medic Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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WAKITA Oklahomi is the site f the September I966. groundbreaking of a pilot community health center. Ofiiciating is the Project Responsibility: A New Idea Project responsibility, a new look in health care pro- vision, was inaugurated at the University of Oklahoma in July, 1965. Originally the idea of Dean James L. Dennis, project responsibility was conceived as a means to provide health care for rural Oklahoma through a co- ordinated plan of data collection, computer analysis, and training of physicians in family practice. The Oklahoma Health Intelligence Facility will make Oklahoma the only state to have current records of all health care personnel. This facility provides an import- ant phase of project responsibility.

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DR. THOMAS C. POINTS is coordinator of Project responsibility and a former Oklahoma City physician. jew DR. EDWARD BRANDT and Mrs. Margaret Shack- elford analyze data from Okla. Health lntelligence Facility. DATA on 33 health care personnel categories is eolleeted and verilietl hy Margie MeBroom and Dewayne Andrews. fix lNTERESTED students listen in as family medicine plans are discussed by Dr. Roger Lienke. Director of Family Medicine Program and Dr. James L. Dennis.

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ELMER TREAT. shown here studying with Bert Flaming. spent one quarter on a senior surgery elective in Hawaii. BRUSHING up on blood studies is Al Joern trightb with the help of Bill Deal, UH lab. director. Al will spend winter 1968 in Antarctica on at medical expedition. LYNN HUGHES. MSiii t2nd from leftl treats a grenade wound in South Viet Nam. To Lynn's left is Dr. Malcolm Phelps, El Reno, who also spent the 1967 Summer in the war zone.