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...increased admission of black students and women over the ten years of his deanship, Ebert says, was significant largely because it had an impact on other medical schools. The Harvard Med School class is now about 19 per cent black...
...Ebert admits that his administration has been concerned more with issues of public health and the societal role of the school than with academic matters. This is because Ebert views himself, from the context of a detailed historical analysis of the role of the Med School, as the pilot of a school in the midst of a prickly "transition period...
After a 60 year period of entrenchment within university systems and development of extensive research programs, medical schools are now on the verge of what Ebert calls the "Social Era." Now, under the manipulation of federal legislation and federal control of the purse-strings, "medical schools, whether public or private, must be considered to be public institutions," Ebert argues...
...Ebert does not always agree with the direction in which legislators and advocates of socialized medicine have attempted to push schools. He says that it is not clear that redistribution of doctors to depressed areas can be effected through changes in the structure of medical schools. Where he has been successful, he says, is in anticipating this pressure before other medical school officials have...
...Thus, Ebert has supported legislation that would force federally supported schools to send their M.D. graduates to doctor-poor areas. And he is now at the focus of the federal effort to determine the nature of medicine as vice chairman of President Ford's Biomedical Research Panel...