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Show Doctors Train PANGUITCH Two new medical students will be temporarily temporar-ily added to the staff at Garfield Memorial Hospital. Dr. E. Terry Henrie and Dr. Richard G. Birch will host Danny Thompson and Lewis Meline from the University of Utah School of Medicine. Thompson arrived April 24 and will be here until May 19. He is a third-year medical student from the University of Utah School of Medicine. He attended Bingham High School in South Jordan and graduated from the University of Utah in 1992. Currently, he is considering a career in Family Practice and, during his stay, he would like to gain more insight in to the family practice career as well as the social aspects of a rural setting. set-ting. In his spare time, Thompson enjoys participating in a variety of athletic activities and ballroom dancing. A second student, Lewis Meline, will be here from May 22 to June 16. Meline attended and graduated from the University of Utah in 1985. Currently, he is considering a family practice, too, and is interested inter-ested in practicing in a rural area. During his stay, he would also like to gain insight into the family practice prac-tice career as well as the social aspect as-pect of a rural setting. In his spare time, he enjoys actively volunteering volunteer-ing in organizations such as the homeless clinic and enjoys fishing and camping. "We enjoy having these students," stu-dents," said hospital administrator Wayne Ross. "They are able to gain experience here they couldn't gain otherwise. We are also able to gain new knowledge from them. We have had residents here from the Mayo Clinic, University of Utah, and Colorado." The Family Practice at the University of Utah School of Medicine sponsors a one-month Family Practice Clerkship. Each medical student is given the opportunity oppor-tunity to select family physicians in Utah or surrounding states to experience ex-perience and observe medical care in the community setting. This pro gram is part of an effort by the medical school to familiarize students stu-dents with the way medicine is practiced outside the University Medical Center and to encourage more students to consider preparing themselves for community practice as family physicians, especially in rural areas which are experiencing a shortage of physicians. |