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Effective this spring, the University's eight year old School of Dentistry in cooperation with the Medical School, will no longer permit graduates to transfer into the third year of medicine, except for extraordinary reasons, Dean Roy O. Greep of the Dental School reported yesterday...
Dean Greep, in implementing a policy established four years ago, pointed out that the Dental School has so far lost almost half of its first 97 graduates to the Medical School and eventually to medical practices not connected with dentistry...
...past, dental school graduates, who take their first two years as regular medical students, have been permitted an automatic transfer into the third year. Now, any student desiring to transfer will have to face a special "Committee on Continued Professional Study in Medicine and Dentistry" composed of three dental professors and three Medical School professors...
Behind the ruling is a desire to keep dental students in the profession. No regulation has been published regarding transfers to medical schools other than the University's but for these a recommendation from the Dental School administration would still be necessary, It is expected such recommendations would only rarely be given...
...idea in granting Dental School graduates the privilege of automatic transfer was that they would further prepare themselves for dentistry, but not one has ever done so," Dean Greep pointed out yesterday...