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available at Buffalo General Hos pital, the University of Connecticut, Hartford Hospital, H a r v a r d Uni versity, the University of Iowa, Mount Sinai Hospital of New York, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California at San Francisco. I n these postdoctoral programs an individual with a doc toral degree can receive the two years of required training and ex perience needed for qualification as a laboratory supervisor and for the certification examination as a lab oratory director. The Challenge
I n its 1968 "Guide Issue," the American Hospital Association (3) listed a total of 6783 registered hos pitals within the United States. Of this total, 58.2% or 3950 hospitals operated their own clinical labora tories. T h e remaining hospitals em ployed private clinical laboratories.
These data, compiled in August 1968, were the 1967 statistics on hospital laboratories. Although the "Guide Issue" is published an nually, the questionnaire used in this survey does not always ask identical questions ; the 1969 survey did not include the clinical labo ratory in its coverage. To be ac credited by the AHA, a hospital must have laboratory facilities available. The Washington office of the AHA reported in March of this year t h a t they now have nearly 8000 hospitals accredited by them. This does not represent the total number of private clinical labora tories in the country. Educated guesses by several clinical chemists as to the number of private clinical laboratories range from three to six times the number of accredited hos pitals. However, even 8000 can make the manpower crisis painfully obvious. As a supervisor must be
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William C. Purdy is head of the Analytical Division, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland. He earned his B.A. (cum laude in chemistry) from Amherst College in 1951 and his Ph.D. at MIT in 1955. After serving as an instructor at the University of Connecticut, he joined the University of Maryland as an assistant professor; he became a full professor in 1964, and was ap pointed head of the Analytical Chemistry Division in 1968.
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Robert S. Melville has been a Sci entist Administrator with the Re search Grants Branch of the Na tional Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health since November, 1965. Dr. Melville received an A.B. degree from Clark University, Worcester, Mass. in 1937; he earned his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry at the State University of Iowa in 1950.
