West Virginia University School of Medicine - Pylon Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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Blood Bank Reception Desk Wl W ' ' ' f ' y I - I ' I West Virginia University Hospital is a 440-bed health center where education of students and advancement of knowledge goes hand in hand with the best in medical care. It is the hub of the Medical Center complex, providing the training ground where students learn the science and art of caring for patients. Services in some 50 specialties are provided for bed patients as well as through clinics where more than 2,000 patients are seen weekly. Emergency Room service is provided around the clock, with more than 39,000 visits recorded annually. Patients come to University Hospital and its clinics from all parts of West Virginia. They find expertise, equipment, and experience sometimes not available at other West Virginia hospitals, in areas such as transplant surgery, bladder pacemakers, linear accelerator radiation therapy, pediatric surgery, and cleft palate repair.

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Until 1960, pharmacists were the only health professionals who could obtain all their education at the state university. Medicine offered only a two-year pro- gram, and nursing and dentistry none. The transition began in 1951 when the Legislature authorized construc- tion of the WVU Medical Center and levied a penny-a- bottle tax on soft drinks to provide basic financing. The WVU Medical Center was planned as a single struc- ture—Basic Sciences Building and University Hospital under one roof— on the Evansdale Campus north of the Downtown Campus. The Basic Sciences portion opened in 1957; first degrees were awarded in the early 1960 ' s. Dentistry now enrolls 240 students, medicine more than 350, and nursing 300 in four- year programs; and pharma- cy 205 in a five-year curriculum. Dental hygiene, medical technology, and physical therapy students number near- ly 200; basic science students 90; and post-doctoral resi- dents 180. f;, X ■ Mi ' mHA l»l«RSn» MEOCAL C£N , -OOl Of Ot« ' iSt« ' .; -OOl or VNAiwAC ( -OO ' 0» IIU» »C

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CHARLESTON WHEELING DIVISIONS In 1972, WVU and the Charleston Area Medical Center — the state ' s largest hospital complex — began a partnership to develop medical and other health science programs. They were based in hospitals and other facilities already in place, but in 1977 a $6 million Medical Education Building was opened. It serves as the center for the clinical education programs. The Charleston Division of the WVU Medical Center expands the patient base and student capacity for WVU ' s health sciences educational programs. It serves students in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health fields, in addition to offering specialty training.