Dr. Charles W. Shilling Dr. Shilling was asked to report on studies made by an informal committee which had met two days previously. The committee included, in addition to Dr. Shilling, Dr. David Bruner, Dr. Burnett, Dr. A. K. Solomon of Harvard, and MEDICAL SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM Dr. John Cooper of Northwestern. Dr. Solomon has been responsible for the isotopes training program at the Harvard Medical School which has become a regularly given elective course and Dr. Cobper was one of the first to set up an isotope laboratory where training is given for both students and under- graduate students on an elective basis. This ad hoc committee arrived at a number of general conclusions as follows: 1. The public law as amended allows the AEC to give "grants and contributions to the cost of construction and operation". This was interpreted as giving the AEC a specific charter not to make contracts, but to give gifts for construction and operation of facilities. After an extended discussion by the Committee of the interpretation of this "charter" as it is applied to medical schools, hospitals and teaching hospitals, it was decided that a grant could be used for the cost of construction and operation of reactors and other facilities and equipment in order to meet the need for medical doctors trained in the use of isotopes in research and in treatment. 2. It was further agreed that support should be made available upon application by any medical school designated as Class "A" by the AMA. This incidently would include support both for Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but would probably eliminate Canada. The second conclusion of the ad hoc committee resulted in considerable discussion of the advisability of using AMA designation as a criterion. DR. BURNETT indicated that osteopathic schools would be ruled out in this manner. DR. DUNHAM indicated that the experience of the Public Health Service in their grant program showed that any such wording would subject the Commission to considerable pressure and recommended that the wording merely refer to classification as a medical school. He also told of experience in isotope distribution whereby the AMA designation was challenged and an exception was made. Since a public announcement will be necessary, the wording should be such that an unfavorable response would not result from various pressure groups. It was the general conclusion of the committee that reference to the AMA be deleted. 3. The ad hoc committee decided that the available funds were to be utilized in any manner that would best achieve the stated pur- pose of initiating or improving education in the medical aspects - 16