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Med School Hosts Symposium

University medical students will focus
on such subjects as consumer expectations
for health care and the government's
role in directing health services
delivery in a two-day symposium next
month.

The Mulholland Society, the School of
Medicine student association, will sponsor
the symposium April 10-11 at the
University on "The Future of Health Care
Delivery." All sessions are open to the public
and will be in the medical school amphitheater.

New Ideas

"Our purpose in planning the symposium
was to give medical students and house staff
members an opportunity to formulate new
ideas about health care delivery that may relate
to their own practices someday," says Fritz A.
Henn, a third-year medical student who has
headed the Mulholland Society this year.

"We also hope the symposium will be a
source of new ideas for State Medical Society
members and regional comprehensive health
planning leaders in Virginia.

Morton Mintz, health editor of the "Washington
Post" will open the symposium with a
survey of consumer expectations for health
care.

Meeting those expectations in an urban
center will be the topic of Dr. Hubert L.
Hemsley, co-founder of the Martin Luther King
Center in Los Angeles' Watts section.

Dr. H. Jack Geiger, professor and chairman
of preventive medicine at Tufts University, will
report on a model program and the University's
role in delivering health care. He supervises a
Tufts-sponsored rural health care facility in
Columbia Point, Miss.

The community hospital as a focus for
health care delivery will be discussed by Ray E.
Brown, vice president of the Northwestern
Medical Center.

On April 11 the symposium will conclude
with an analysis of the government's role in
directing health services delivery and a panel
discussion by representatives of various plans
and methods of health care delivery.

Dr. Joseph T. English, administrator of the
Health Services and Mental Health Administration
of the United States Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, will discuss the
government's role.

Panel Members

Panelists will include Dr. Thomas H. Bain of
Crozet, representing a solo family practice; Dr.
T.M. Barnett of Washington, medical director
of the Group Health Association Inc., representing
a prepaid group practice; Dr. Allen N.
Koplin of Knoxville, Tenn., area medical
administrator for United Mine Workers, representing
a union health program, and Dr. J.
Hayden Hollingsworth of Roanoke, representing
a fee-for-service group practice.