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Show Shortage of Doctors Faces Nation One of the major problems being created by America's zooming population is the training train-ing of men in medicine to take care of the future health needs of the country. The problem is accentuated by the fact that other occupations, occu-pations, such as science, engineering, engin-eering, mathematics and allied fields, are attracting many of the top strata students who in past years have selected medicine med-icine as their profession. The prospects of big wages and shorter periods of training is attractive to students. Recognizing the problem, the American Medical Association has sponsored the American Medical Education Foundation to encourage students into the field of medicine and also to provide methods of bettering the program of medical education. educa-tion. This is one reason America Amer-ica has retained its leadership in medicine and medical education. ed-ucation. President Ralph E. Jorgen-son Jorgen-son of the Utah State Medical Association, reports that American Amer-ican doctors have contributed more than $1 million to the medical education foundation this year. A total of $13,87b was contributed by Utah doctors doc-tors which put Utah high on the list on a per capita basis. Utah doctors also have contributed con-tributed more than $700,000 to the University of Utah Medical Center along with regular contributions con-tributions to the University Medical Library. "Utah physicians are aware of the problem and the need for training future doctors and are eager to do everything they can to help," pointed out Dr. Jorgenson at the regular monthly U. S. M. A. executive council meeting in Salt Lake City. |