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Show Army Commissions for Medical Students Medical students, and internes who are Selective Service registrants regis-trants should endeavor to obtain commissions in the Medical Reserve Re-serve Corps of the United States Army, Major H. A. Rich, Acting State Director of Selective Service, Ser-vice, said today. Major Rich called attention to a recent announcement by the War Department that male students stud-ents who have completed more than two years in a Grade A medical med-ical school in the United States are eligible for commissions as second lieutenants in the Medical' Administrative Corps Reserve, and that physically qualified internes in-ternes may be commissioned as first lieutenants in the Medical Corps Reserve. Internes, he said, would be commissioned with the understanding under-standing that they will be order ed to one year's active duty immediately im-mediately upon completion of their internship, while, except for an emergency requiring their im mediate services, medical students stud-ents should be permitted to finish their schooling and internship duty. Students and internes of the State of Utah who wish to apply for Medical Corps Commissions, Major Rich said, should make ap-General, ap-General, plication to the Commanding Com-manding General, Ninth Corps Area, Presidio of San Francisco, California. Major Rich again stressed the recent report of the Office of Production Managment that there is a growing shortage of physicians physic-ians and surgeons, which affects both the Nation's armed forces and the civilian population. For this reason he pointed out, National Nat-ional Headquarters, Selective Service Ser-vice System, has proclaimed a policy of deferment from military training of individual medical students "who give reasonable promise of becoming asseptable medical doctors," regardless of whether or not they have applied for Medical Reserve Corps commissions. com-missions. n he other hand Major Rich said. "The requirements of the (Continued On Page 5) ARMY COMMISSIONS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (Continued from Page 1) When the Grazing Service is Nation's armed forces for physicians phy-sicians and surgeons must be filled. fill-ed. While no practicing doctor whose services are necessary to his community should be called for military service, doctors, in-. in-. terns and medical students who are iligible for Medical Re- serve Corps commissions should be encouraged to apply for them. "Doctors and internes eligible for these commissions, who are placed in Class I-A and fail to . take advantage of the opportuni-' opportuni-' ty to be commissioned, will be in-" in-" ducted for Selective Service mil- itay training." |