MEDICAL SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM (continued ) — agricultural schools and public health schools. This would permit large universities to be allowed four isotope laboratories under one program; one for the agricultural school, one for the public health school, one for the medical school, and one for the biology department all of which are some- times separated by great distances. DR. PEARSON expressed the opinion that the program should not be thought of on a departmental basis because the fundamental training should be essentially the same. Some problems would be eliminated if the university were to set up & program that cuts across departmental lines. DR. BUGHER expressed agreement with this opinion but pointed out practical difficulties in such a plan. It was DR. BURNETT'S opinion that a school should be able to work out its own method of using a grant. DR. WARREN also expressed agreement with this but said that a single department would necessarily conduct the program because of the manner in which universities are organized. Dr. Dunham raised the question of a possible problem in that a grant of equipment for training might easily be diverted to research activities. DR. BURNETT made mention of another recommendation in that although written reports would not be required, meetings of the program directors at appropriate intervals would be desirable to discuss the progress of the general program and to allow for an interchange of ideas. DR. SHILLING added that overhead would not be permitted. At this point the Chairman suggested a discussion of the training of secondary school teachers through a program for teachers colleges. The suggestion was introduced by DR. WARREN with some comments about the distributions of high school teachers in New England, one third of whom comes from HIGH SCHOOL @ single school of education in that area where an TEACHER TRAINING isotopes training program should prove to be most effective. DR. BUGHER suggested that such a program should extend into the elementary school grades and thought should be given to the training of elementary school teachers. There has been considerable talk about the lagging of the United States in the training of engineers and scientists and its need to maintain our standard by stimulation and orlentation in the early years. DR. BUGHER pointed out that because of budget cycle lags, some consideration should be given to the future direction of the educational program along these lines.