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aa _ .! _ meaicai i gets nev By Wayne Brooks Dr. Roderick MacDonald Jr., will begin his duties as dean of the USC Medical School in September, President William H. Patterson announced Friday. Presently chairman of the Medical College of Virginia ? Department of Ophthalmology, MacDonald is a Rock Hill native uuu u giauuaic ui IHC lUCUlCitl University of South Carolina. He has also served as an instructor in ophthalmology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans and as chairman of the department of ophthalmology and vice dean of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. While attending Davidson uoiiege, Davidson, N.U., MacDonald received a bachelor of 9 science degree and later received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical University in Charleston. Other positions held by Mac11 ^ J _ - ivieu dcnooi c The USC School of Medicine has received a $33,000 "capitation g grant" from the federal Depart9 ment of Health, Education and Welfare. The funds will be used to help support the medical school's general educational Drottram. which has received provisional I i MgMWH a I school | if flAfin ^ Donald in previous years are chief of ophthalmology at the McGuire & Veterans Administration Hospital ^ and the Medical College of Virginia I Hospital in Richmond, a member 1 of the board of directors of the Old Dominion Eye Bank and Research, | Inc., and a diplomat of the 1 American Board of Ophthal- S mnlndv In addition, MacDonald is a member of the American College * of Surgeons and the American Ophthalmological Society and the program committee of the section e: on ophthalmology of the American nr Medical Association. He is also th chairman of the Faculty th Productivity Study Committee of U the Medical College of Virginia and N a member of the Royal Society of Health in London and the d* American Association for th? m Advancement of Science. di The area of research MacDonald D has written most extensively on is P iwarded $33,0 accreditation effective in 1977. Capitation grants are designed to f i provide general financial support fc Tor meaicai scnooieducational a programs. The funds may be used f< for operational costs, including research and patient care related a to teaching, and for library sup- b port. ei 2hHH mk^?kI offe Beginning MocDONALD keaSuei1J?c Richland Coi ye disease, injuries and treat- and set up a < lent. He has received grants from agencies and le AM A, the National Society for Students ii le Prevention of Blindness, the developing sj .S. Public Health Service and the emotional pr ational Institute of Health. communicati Dr. Francis L. Abel, interim functions an ean of the USC School of preschool ag [edicine, will return to full-time munity orgai Lities as professor and head of the According 1 epartment of Physiology and students will harmacology in the school. six hours in tl courses taug dependent si 00 grant Joyner said. A director , , . . . _ Compton, dir The funds may not be used for ^ academic nancial assistance to students or Because m; >r construction costs, other than joyner Iterations and renovations needed nrranertivp s ? educational programs. The Depart The funds are to be made from juniors mailable to the school each year cleared by A< ased on the numhpr nf atnfion?o - ?? - students in July 29, 1976?THE GAMECOCK?Page 3 ION program rs course credit . Brooks mum aupenu, various iringe oenetits and 36 hours of te credit are being offered to USC students through a new >ecin here this fall m is funded by an $84,000 grant from ACTION, a federal )lunteer services, and is being administered through the Department of Special Programs. program, 30 students will be allowed to receive as much if undergraduate credit through independent study and grams related to their volunteer experience in aiding d communities in the Columbia area. /as presented to Vice President of Instruction William H. ily 16 by Paul R. Jones, regional director of ACTION. this fall, students will work with the Columbia Urban olumbia Housing Authority, Brothers and Sisters and the tnty Department of Social Services to develop programs :ontinuing relationship between the university and these the people they serve. i the program will be undertaking such projects as rstems for testing children for learning disabilities and oblems, assisting residents or various communities in ng their problems and needs, planning community d activities. H^vplnnino nrmframmo^ J ? . |/a UIIIIIIVU aWlYEtlUO 1U1 ed children and assisting in the development of comlizations. o Elaine Joyner of the Department of Special Programs, register for 15 hours in the fall, 15 hours in the spring, and le summer. Twenty-one hours will be devoted to seminar ht off-campus, and 15 hours will be devoted to in ii ' ? jujr tuuiws coordinated on campus. he program lends itself better to students of social work, i psychology, students of all disciplines can volunteer," will be hired soon to run the program and Dr. Thome ector of Interdisciplinary Independent Study, will handle : aspect of the program. iny students will not return to the USC campus until fall, said, various departments will be asked to suggest nnl?AAMi<i ppnems^nent of Special Programs began accepting applications ind seniors this week. Applicants will be screened and 7TION. ;erested in participating in the program should contact ?nt of Special Programs at 777-2260. vte^HSEssal gngnSB HRHBIHUflHiHHIfllHflHflRM&siPi >l?l> b y jtoWB