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Show SUSC student selected to enter Former corpsmen Medex program a ...... , malized study will provide a correlation between his medical med-ical corps training and experience exper-ience and its application to civilian medical practice. The Medox program has been instituted to provide help for overworked doctors, especially in rural areas. Duties Medex trainees will be certified to perform will include minor surgery, patient pati-ent screening, shots, routine examinations, medical records, re-cords, case histories, and other oth-er procedures which do not have to be performed by a licensed li-censed physician. Mr. Adams was a clinical technician for three and one half years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He spent one year in Vietnam at the Dau Tieng clearing station field hospital and also put in independent in-dependent duty in Vietnam villages. He was stationed for one year at Letterman Army DAVID D. ADAMS David D. Adams, senior zoology major at Southern Utah State College, has been selected for training in the new Medex program for physician's phys-ician's assistants. He is one of 12 participants chosen from 1500 applicants from throughout through-out the United States. All are former medical corpsmen who have served in one, of the armed services The program in which Mr. Adams will enroll for 15 months training is the second to be . started in Utah since the State Legislature passed the bill last year to fund the training. He will study at the University of Utah , for three months before continuing on-the-job training under an established es-tablished physician. The for: Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. and also served at Brook General Hospital at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. He has had extensive experience ex-perience in many emergency medical procedures as a doctor's doc-tor's assistant and has become be-come proficient with specialized special-ized equipment such as the artificial kidney machine Prior to his army service Mr. Adams was Executive Secretary of Social Affairs at SUSC and served as vice president pres-ident of Delta Phi Kappa fraternity. fra-ternity. He served an LDS mission in the East Central States from 1963 to 1965. He is currently assistant athletic director in the Cedar Second Ward. He is married to the former Annette Halterman of Paro-wan. Paro-wan. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Madsen of Monroe. |