Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976
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390 BOARD O F T R U S T E E S [ S e p t e m b e r 17 outside the United States who, because of the nature of the curriculum in these schools, will not have been awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree after completion of four years in such medical schools and who have been unable to qualify for licensure by established means. The pathway has been called the "Fifth Pathway" because in most states it represents the fifth method 1 of obtaining a license to practice medicine. The amendment to the Medical Practice Act calls upon medical schools in the State of Illinois to establish a program of hospital training for citizens of Illinois who have completed four years in a foreign medical school. The College of Medicine has indicated its willingness to participate in this program. According to the amendment, the program is automatically terminated on September 1, 1978. T h e Executive Dean and the faculty of the College of Medicine recommend that the College be authorized to participate in the program and to issue an appropriate certificate to those individuals who satisfactorily complete the program in a hospital affiliated with the University of Illinois and whose performance is satisfactory as measured by evaluative instruments developed by the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. The Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Vice President for Academic Affairs concur. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved. Mr. Hahn asked to be recorded as voting no. Continuous Enrollment of Medical Students (20) T h e regular curriculum for medical students requires instructional time equal to that received in thirteen academic quarters. Instruction approximately equal to three quarters is received while enrolled in a school of basic medical sciences (Chicago or Urbana-Champaign), and that equal to ten quarters is received in a school of clinical medicine (Chicago, Peoria, or Rockford). However, the curriculum schedule does not conform to the specific dates of the traditional calendar for the Medical Center campus. This is most evident during the time medical students are enrolled in one of the schools of clinical medicine. In effect, each student receives the equivalent of thirteen quarters of instruction and two quarters of vacation spread over fifteen academic quarters of time beginning with the fall quarter of the first year and ending upon completion of the spring quarter of the fourth year. Because the unique features of the medical curriculum make it necessary to utilize hospitals and other clinical facilities in an even and consistent pattern throughout the year, the College of Medicine has recommended that medical students be registered on an annual basis and be considered continuously enrolled for the entire fifteen-quarter period. It is further recommended that tuition and the service fee be assessed at the level approved by the Board of Trustees from time to time and collected in the first thirteen installments over the fifteen-quarter period of time. Under this proposal, total tuition income would be equal to that collected under the present system. The Chancellor at the Medical Center, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Vice President for Administration concur. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved. The four pathways are: 1) admission with advanced standing to American medical schools under a coordinated transfer system, 2) certification by the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, 3) obtaining a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine issued by a state or other United States jurisdiction authorized to license physicians, 4) for U.S. citizens, passing a licensure examination in a state or other licensing jurisdiction which grants a full license to practice in that jurisdiction on completion of his residency or internship in that state. 1
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