Show i i Officials 1 I Ii Draft Statement on Medic School Plan Move to Clear Path Necessary For Full Accredit Accrediting ing Declaring clari clarification of issues and full information to the public anent steps necessary to full accrediting accrediting accrediting ac ac- ac- ac crediting of ot the thc University of Utah medical school are their only objectives objectives objectives ob ob- ob- ob university officials board of ot regents members and representatives representatives representatives of the university administrative administrative administrative ad ad- council the American Association of Medical Colleges and the American Medical Me association association tion will issue a joint public statement statement statement state state- ment late lat Friday Dr LeRoy E. E Cowles university president who will aid in formulating formulating formulating formu formu- lating the public statement said the move toward a final statement statement state state- ment of issues issues' and necessary steps developed as Drs Victor Johnson and Fred C. C representing representing representing rep rep- resenting the national associations convened with the board of regents regents regents re re- re- re gents Friday morning Drs Leland H. H Creer Orin Tug- Tug man and Elton Quinn of the administrative administrative ad ad administrative council and Roy D. D Thatcher board of regents will compile the statement nt in conference conference conference confer confer- ence with Drs Johnson and While Drs Johnson and conferred with the the board of re regents regents regents re- re gents more than an hour Friday no report of the discussions was available to the press At the doctors' doctors request the press also was excluded from the afternoon meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing which Dr Cowles said probably probably probably ably would last about an hour It w was convened at 3 p p jm pt ri vat at t the university However Howe r regents regent individually expressed satisfaction tl that everything every t. t thing irig A is going rg to tob be Jc ered e ip lIP up and the Ute controversy ended ltV lt v c We V have hav il h no c reply t to make mak Thus did Drs Dra and Vic- Vic tor br or J Johnson answer answer answer- charges harge that tha they hey had issued inaccurate statements statements statements state state- ments in discussion of difficulties at the University of Utah medical medi cal school The physicians made the comment comment com corn ment as they convened at th the uni university university ni with wilh the board of regents and the university administrative council L. L H. H Kirkpatrick university librarian issued a statement in the belief that it should be bo no crime e for those of us in hi a position to todo todo todo do so to defend the University of f Utah from that which is not justifiable justifiable justi justi- and Dr Charles C. C Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son professor of ph pharmacology and physiology who has resigned also issued a statement challenging ing ng some of the statements made I by jy the inspectors Prior to the meeting at the university uni- uni uni-I uni Drs Victor Johnson and I conferred with Salt Lake county commissioners on general problems of th the Salt Lake general hospital and p promised to in inspect the he center Saturday at 11 Ii a. a m m. They said th they y would report their Continued tnt tin Page Seven Column Five e w Utah Medical School Examiners Disdain Reply To Ch Charge rge of Making Inaccurate Statements Statements' Continued from Pars P pa r One Oae findings and recommendations ns to 1 the commissioners They commented that in spite of ot the difficulties the assets of the university medical school to today today today to- to day are far tar better than they were in February and saw no reason why Salt Lake general hospital could not become one of the best I I health centers in the west I I They advised that commissioners should not be too narrow in their outlook or complain too much about handling 40 per cent of the states state's health needs Ever Larger Territory As the center is developed said Dr Johnson the center will not be for the state alone but for foran foran an ever larger territory They voiced a keen interest Inthe Inthe in inthe the facilities available at atthe the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital and reviewed wi with h commissioners commissioners commis commis- recent expansions and enlargements enlargements enlargements en en- and changes currently under way or contemplated The physicians also expressed a willingness to aid commissioners in the selection of a successor to Dr George N. N Curtis hospital su superintendent superintendent su su- su and county physician whose services are terminated as of May 15 Dr suggested that the appointment of a temporary temporary temporary tem tem- medical director directo at atthe the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital as well as selection s of an administrator may solve the problem problem problem lem of ot a successor In this statement which he said was issued because Dr Johnson assured him the examiners declined declined declined de de- to meet with him Mr Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick Kirk- Kirk patrick said Most of or us agree probably that we had an A grade school for at least 15 years We know that graduates from this I school were praised by the president president president dent of Stanford university on the basis of the records made there We know that th-at they have done better than average work at Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard and Pennsylvania We know that Utah was publicly praised a afew afew afew I few years ago In a meeting of the I Association of State Universities Universities' as the best of the year two-year schools I did not meet the examiners when n they were here before Dr A. A Cyril Callister school dean showed them the medical library and told them the changes he proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed to make there He wrote me a letter telling me of some of the criticism he alleged they made A month later tater after having havIng having hav hav- ing my request ignored by the dean I recel received ved a copy of ot the re report report report re- re port from the president Upon the basis of the Inaccurate Inaccurate inaccurate rate statements made about the medical library I have concluded that possibly the other men crIticized criticized crit crIt- in the report have some Borne grounds for asking asking- for a rehear rehear- ing In response to a statement made by the examiners that Dr Callister Camster Canister Cams Callis I ter did not accompany them on on their inspection Dr Johnson declared de- de the dean did accompany them at least in their visit to the library and to the animal quarters Dr Johnson also challenged as false a statement that the Investigators Investigators investigators told each of the mep men mep criticized criticized crit crit- exactly what would be said of or them in the report before we wc left Salt Lake City Dr Johnson also declared he had not criticized the dean to the two doctors except in hi regard to unfairness in determining basis for salaries in regard to the I ed program He said the statement statement Statement state State- I ment by Dr that faculty I members criticized the dean and didn't pull any punches was unfair unfair un fair and not a a. true representation of the facts |