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The health aide training program was successful throughout the
Trust Territory. Those who worked at the dispensaries had continuing opportunities for training and many of them became excepreturned to their home islands did a creditable job considering the
frequent difficulties in obtaining supplies and the lack of direction in
diagnosis which was obtainable only when a field trip vessel arrived.
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Practitioners and Nurses
Advanced training of medical, dental and nursing personnel continued to be conducted at Guam during the period of naval administration of the Trust Territory... The School of Medical Practitioners
commissioned on January 2, 1946, and the School of Dental Practitioners, commissioned on February 21, 1947, were redesignated the
School of Medical Assistants and the School of Dental Assistants on
April 23, 1948." At the time of the establishment of trusteeship in
July 1947, the medical and dental schools were parts of the United
States Naval Medical Center, Guam,” which was under the military
command and coordination control of Commander United States
Naval Forces Marianas and the management controlof the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery.” These two schools were responsible to the
Commanding Officer, United States Naval Hospital, Guam, and each
was under the immediate direction of an officer in charge who was a
Commander, Medical Corps, and Commander, Dental Corps. respectively. The School of Nursing, commissioned on January 2, 1946,
was not a separate part of the United States Naval Medical Center but
* See v. IT. p. 352 ff.
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The U.S.
Naval Medical Center, Guam. also consisted of the U. S. Naval Hospital. Guam.
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Memorial
Hospital andthe Institute of Tropical Medicine.
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