Students at School of Nursing, Guam
wasto bedisestablished, some provision had to be made for continuing
the medical and dental schools, then parts of the Medical Center. The
nursing school involved no organizationaldifficulty because it was part
of the Guam Memorial Hospital, an indigenousinstitution which was
to be taken over by the Departmentof the Interior. It would be possible
to conduct the medical and dental schools as parts of the Naval Hos-
pital, Guam, which was to continue to exist in the Marianas command.
but with nurses’ training responsible to a different organization, 1. €.
the Department of the Interior, there was no assurance that Guam and
Trust Territory patients would be clinically available to the medical
and dental schoolstudents.
To avoid this possibility and also reduce the cost of training, which
wasto be necessary during the forthcomingfiscal year, Field TerPacls
recommended that: (1) the Trust Territory establish at Truk its own
hospital withfacilities for medical, dental and nursing training; (2)
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