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Lafayette medical center
trains students
By Ian Clift
Summer Reporter
In the mid—1960s the states decided to boost
the number of physicians by increasing the numbers in medical schools;
Indiana decided to create regional campuses in eight locations around
the state.
"In 1971 there was a program in Lafayette," said
Gordon Coppoc, head of basic medical sciences department and director
of the Lafayette Center for Medical Education. There are seven other
locations providing education to students that are accepted into the
Indiana University Medical school.
The sites of the other seven branches are in Gary,
South Bend, Fort Wayne, Evansville, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Bloomington.
In the beginning, the regional locations offered
only the first year of medical education. "Then around 1980," said Coppoc,
"they established a second year."
The center, which usually has somewhere around
32 students, 16 per school year, was implemented during former Purdue
president Steven Beering's time as associate dean of IU Medical School.
"He recruited my predecessor," said Coppoc, "Lindley
Wagner, M.D. He was the founding director of the Lafayette Center for
Medical Education at Purdue."
Jim Walker, associate director of the Lafayette
Center of Medical Education, said the courses offered through the center
are only for IU medical students studying at Purdue, although the courses
are sometimes taken by other graduate students on special occasions.
Walker, who works with Purdue students as well
as medical students, is teaching a summer anatomy course for biomedical
scientists and engineers. "The objective," he said, "is to provide them
with a rigorous introductory course in human anatomy."
Students who come to the Purdue campus to study
usually choose it as a second choice, said Coppoc. "They are formally
enrolled as special graduate students and, in fact, the medical students
pay their tuition to Purdue."
Of the 280 students that are admitted to the IU
medical school, 140 are distributed among the regional campuses. Ninety-five
percent of the students choose Indianapolis, where the medical school
is located, as their first choice.
"Some of them are upset when they are assigned
to the regional campus," said Coppoc. "Then they say, 'Wow Purdue is
a great place,' because we have great resources."
He said students who attend Purdue usually become
a close group and do as well or better then students who attend other
campuses.
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