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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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Utilities Distribution System $1 152 800 Heating and air-conditioning are supplied from the Utilities Building to all Phase I, I I , and I I I buildings through an underground distribution system. Electrical power is also supplied through this distribution system. The proposed construction of the Student Services Building and the Classroom-Office Building (both to be located on the tract of land bordered by Morgan, Harrison, the Eisenhower Expressway, and the walkway ramp) will require modification and extension of the present utilities distribution system. V. Medical Center Campus: Capital Program for 1969-71 T w o of the three buildings in the Medical Center's 1969-71 building program were included in the University's preceding (1967-69) capital request: the Library Building and Phase II of the Dentistry Building. In terms of general value both to other units at the Medical Center campus and to the entire Medical Center community, the Library Building deserves the very highest priority. T h e entire educational and professional enterprise in the area suffers because of the appallingly inadequate library facilities at that campus. The nature and purposes of the new facilities requested for dentistry and medicine are fully described in the following pages. As already noted, the justification for them has been presented in the Report on Education in the Health Fields. Clinical Medicine Centers Planning and Construction Costs (State Funds) $6 600 000" The University of Illinois proposes to begin the implementation of the recommendations in the Board of Higher Education's Report on Education in the Health Fields in the biennium 1969-71. The expansion of enrollment for the M.D. degree will have top priority in this program, together with the concurrent establishment of regional clinical centers for postdoctoral training (internship-residency and continuing education). The first step will be the establishment of a semi-autonomous "school" within the College of Medicine, whose first-year professional class of 100 students would be enrolled for instruction in the basic medical sciences at the Urbana-Champaign campus. (Funds for the construction of a facility to house this work are being requested elsewhere in this document.) After the first medical year at the UrbanaChampaign campus, the students would be transferred to clinical training centers to be developed by the University of Illinois in one or more of the regions designated in the Report on Education in the Health Fields. The purpose of the present request for the sum of $6,600,000 would be to plan and construct the facilities needed in these clinical centers for the education of 100 sophomore, 100 junior, and 100 senior medical students. This sum would be the amount allowed under the budget formula adopted by the Board of Higher Education at its meeting on June 4, 1968, in accordance with the following calculations: 20 students @ $50,000 per student $1 000 000 280 students @ $20,000 per student 5 600 000 Total $6 600 000 Several stages in the planning of these clinical facilities would be necessary before construction could begin. First, discussions must be held with selected hospitals concerning the terms of affiliation agreements covering the types of training to be developed, the administrative arrangements, and University-hospital relationships involving faculty membership and educational policies. The transformation of hospitals devoted primarily to health care into institutions serving also the purposes of professional medical education is a complex task, requiring careful delineation of the respective missions of the two types of institutions and explicit formulation of the policies and procedures governing their interrelations in the joint enterprise. The detailed educational program for the clinical centers would then be developed, and the staff and special facilities required would be determined. Only after these matters have been settled would it be possible to spell out the specific requirements for the additional or remodeled space that would be needed for educational purposes.

1 Efforts would be made to secure all available federal funds for this program — either to replace or to supplement State funds, depending on the total cost as finally determined.