| Show Three New Members Set For Davis Health Care I Davis County will soon add three new members to the area's health care Lloyd Joe and David Warden announced today that three of twelve currently in training at the University of Utah College of Medicine will join their respective practices in THE are former military medical corpsmen who are being carefully trained to assist physicians who are overworked and need additional help in providing health care to their During the next few the three doctors will interview those and their wives who are interested in moving to Davis County and desire to stay here after is Poulsen noted that most of the are originally from rural areas of the Region and that all are anxious to work and live in j small THE UTAH Demonstration which is jointly sponsored by the Department of Community and Family the Inter-mountain Regional Medical and the Utah State Medical will train two groups of twelve during the next two The twelve currently in training were selected from over applicants and have received up to hours of formal medical in the armed The majority were trained for while in the military and many were stationed at isolated radar on small and similar locations where they were the only medical personnel THE physicians explained that they will serve as during the fifteen month training program will continually train their to assist them in delivering health care i V The will extend the doctors' capacities to treat increased numbers of patients by taking patient performing parts of physical suturing minor perform ing laboratory assisting at and by completing numerous other medical tasks for which he has been trained THE will always perform these tasks under the direct supervision of their The Utah Project is patterned after the projects currently underway in Los Grand North and New IS a fifteen-month program divided into two a three month phase within the University of Utah Medical Center which emphasizes the transition from military to civilian medical and the acquisition of skills not acquired in the armed and twelve months of practical training under the guidance of a preceptor and faculty affiliated with the College of Physician-preceptors will participate throughout the training program to insure that training will reflect the medical characteristics of their own A CONTINUING education program for the as well as his preceptor is part of the Approximately once each month clinical conference-seminars will be conducted to supplement specific aspects of the At the end of the the physician-preceptor will hire the to aid in his hereby adding a pair of skilled hands that will function under the physician's constant The will have been trained for general but more specifically for each physician's particular |
