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Planning Medical Center Facilities for Education, Research, and Public Service

George T. Harrell
  • Publish Date: 1/23/1991
  • Dimensions: 7 x 10
  • Page Count: 196 pages
  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-01163-9

Planning Medical Center Facilities is a review of the experience of one new medical school with a sampling of the unique features of others. The point of view is that of a medical educator whose objective is to point out the enlarging role in education of university medical schools and the increasing emphasis in academic health centers on the delivery of patient care. The long lead-time required for the planning of a medical educational program and the special architectural solution to the problem of housing it, in the author's opinion, are not sufficiently appreciated. In spite of the immediate shortage of federal funds, he argues, planning for new health centers to be built in the next decade should proceed now. The problems of institutions vary, yet this book raises questions which must be considered and answered not only by all medical educators but also by their architects, engineers, administrators, and members of governing boards. The philosophy behind the architectural solution achieved in the building may be of interest to students in a number of different professional schools. The volume is thoroughly illustrated with plans and photographs.

Dr. George T. Harrell, Jr., vice president emeritus for medical sciences, College of Medicine of the Pennsylvania State University, is the 1973 recipient of the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education. The award was established in 1958 by the Association of American Medical Colleges to recognize extraordinary individual contributions to medical schools and to the medical education community as a whole.

Dr. Harrell was dean during the formation of two schools of medicine—the University of Florida College of Medicine and the medical school at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. His conceptual abilities in designing physical facilities to achieve educational objectives are, according to a letter nominating him for the award, "only beginning to be appreciated." Citing Dr. Harrell's dedication to medical education and his contributions encompassing "the broadest dimensions from the theoretical to the applied," the letter also said that he is "a true genius in his ability to develop a medical education philosophy and then translate it and interpret it architecturally." Another colleague stated that "the design of the Animal Resource Facility at Hershey has been characterized as visionary and is being copied as a model throughout the world."

He has published more than 160 articles in both scientific and professional journals and has been active for many years in a long list of honorary and professional societies.

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