would provide “sufficient area saturation for personnel of this sem1-
skilled type.” *” Nurses’ training, however, was designed to provide
replacement, and because that was a constant and continuous requirement, it was planned at one time to provide permanent quarters and
lecture rooms for the students in the Guam Memorial Hospital. In
March 1949 the Governor of Guam asked for the sum of $5,845,000 for
new construction but lowered appropriations and plans for eventual
transfer of the hospital to Department of the Interior administration
madeit impracticable to undertake the project.
Students for the schools at Guam were originally chosen from
amongthe health aides who werereceiving training at the civil administration dispensaries. Because of lack of instruction in English and
mathematics, however, many of the students were unable to cope with
the classes at Guam and DepHiComTerPacls directed that, beginning
January 1, 1949, all candidates for advanced professional training
should have successfully completed at least one year of intermediate
schooling.”* In addition, applicants were required to pass an intelli-
gence test and be selected by a board in each district composed of the
civil administrator, the senior medical officer and the education officer.
Vocabulary requirements, originally set at 500 words for medical and
dental students and 200 wordsfor nursing students, were later raised to
800 words for medical and dental students and 500 words for nursing
students. Other entrance requirements remained as established when
the schools were first started."
_ Thelength of the courses also continued approximately as established
in the military government period. The pre-school, four months intensive training in English and mathematics was increased to six
months and a smattering of social studies added. The medical and
dental courses remainedof four years duration andthe nursing course
three years. Occasionally medical and dental practitioners who had
been trained by the Japanese were sent to the schools for refresher
training. A one year course in prosthetic dentistry was added in 1948
and the students given instruction at the Fleet Dental Clinic. The
school year of eleven months began on January 1 for the medical and
dental students and on March1 for the nursing students.
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