Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980 [PAGE 195]

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of $260 to be applied to the general fee associated with the program. Rising costs associated with the program have made this increase necessary. T h e increase will become effective beginning with the entering class in the fall of 1979. I concur in this recommendation. O n m o t i o n of M r . H o w a r d , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . Contract with the Health and Hospitals Governing Commission of Cook County for Residency Training, Medical Center (24) T h e School of Public Health at the Medical Center wishes to continue for the third year a contractual relationship with the Health and Hospitals Governing Commission of Cook County for the residency training of physicians in occupational medicine in Cook County Hospital. The contract in an amount not to exceed $93,720 is for the period July 1, 1978, through June 30, 1979. Funds are available from a Kellogg Foundation grant. Under the contract, the Health and Hospitals Governing Commission has the authority to administer and manage the residency program in occupational medicine, limited only by the terms of the grant and the line item amounts specified in the budget. The chancellor at the Medical Center has recommended approval of the contract. T h e vice presidents for academic affairs and for administration concur. I recommend approval. T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, M r . Sobotka. M r . Watson; no, none. O n motion of M r . Velasquez, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Donoghue, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . Howard, M r . Lenz, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone, M r . Velasquez; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Neal, Governor Thompson. Contracts for Residency Training in General Internal Medicine and General Pediatrics, Medical Center (25) T h e Federal Health Professions Educational Assistance Act authorizes grants to promote the graduate education of physicians who will enter the practice of general internal medicine or general pediatrics. T h e federal statute provides that such grants be awarded to schools of medicine, not directly to a hospital. Grant applications have been submitted to the College of Medicine by the Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, and Lutheran General Hospital (all in the Chicago Metropolitan area and affiliated with the college), and grants totaling $755,000 have been awarded to the college based on the applications. The programs supported by these grants will train primary care physicians who will practice general internal medicine or general pediatrics. The chancellor at the Medical Center has recommended that the University contract with the hospitals in amounts not to exceed the award made for each hospital as follows: Hospital No. of Residents Amount Lutheran General Hospital 48 $333 000 Mercy Hospital and Medical Center 11 148 000 Illinois Masonic Medical Center 8 274 000 T h e contract period in each case is October 1, 1978, to September 30, 1979. Federal grant funds are available in the operating budget of the College of Medicine.