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Medical schools find alternate sites after Katrina.(News)
Medical schools affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath scrambled to find alternative locations and resources, to ensure that their students and residents would be able to continue practicing medicine.
At press time, most of the students from Tulane University in New Orleans were being housed 180 miles away at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. Tulane leadership had set up temporary headquarters in Jackson with the assistance of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Paul K. Whelton, M.D., senior vice president for health sciences at Tulane, said the university would establish a more permanent "interim leadership headquarters" in Houston.
"Senior administrative staff are in discussion with their counterparts at Houston-area medical schools about these schools assisting Tulane in continuing to provide medical education for Tulane students in all 4 years of medical education," the Association of American Medical Colleges reported. A similar ...
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