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Many Cuban doctors have settled in Chicago, lured by the city's shortage of physicians, supporting themselves by doing medical research and laboratory work while they study for licenses. The Cubans must first pass a state examination prescribed for foreign physicians, then serve a year's internship, finally pass another state examination before they can practice. Says one 32-year-old University of Havana medical school graduate: "I am glad to start again. It is not easy, but it is better than to be there...
...Department of Mechanical Engineering. Explains M.I.T.'s President Julius A. Stratton: "The use of big commercial equipment suitable for stereotyped experiments is yielding to more imaginative approaches in which students are given an opportunity to undertake projects of their choice, and to benefit by a kind of internship under the guidance of a faculty member...
...medical schools this month, 7,000 graduates will don academic hoods (green, for herbs) and receive the degree of Medicinae Doctor. After internship, the vast majority will be licensed to practice as physicians, swelling the nation's total to almost 250,000. The big round number looks impressive. But in fact, if the proportion of doctors in the community is to be kept from slipping dangerously during the population growth of the next ten to 20 years, the output must be upped by more than 40% - to 10,000 a year...
American medical schools last year graduated only a little over half the number of physicians needed to fill the number of internship positions open on U.S. hospital staffs, Geiger noted...
...years after Cornelius Packard Rhoads graduated from Harvard Medical School ('24, cum laude), there was little in his life to suggest that his name would become synonymous with cancer research. Son of a Springfield (Mass.) ophthalmologist, young Dr. Rhoads took his internship under Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing, then went to New York's Trudeau Sanatorium (TIME, Dec. 6,1954), Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work...