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S.C. medical schi nnnlH cqiia ototo uuuiu ouvu oiuiu From Staff and Wire Reports South Carolina could save about $5 million a year by merging the state's two medical schools, which would improve the quality of the schools' students, according to a draft proposal under study by a special advisory panel. The draft plan, obtained by The State newspaper, is a working document of the state Commission on Higher Education's RiKKnn **? 1 A jltiuv iviuwuii v/uuiiuiiicc uii mcuiuai jL/utiur Education," which began studying the state's doctor supply and medical school needs in September. The group will vote Wednesday on whether to place USC's School of Medicine under the administration of the Medical University of South Carolina, sources on the committee told The State. The draft, the second on the committee's work, includes an "executive summary" with three recommendations that suggest having a single medical school in South Carolina with two campuses, one in Charleston and t.he othpr in Cnlumhin THE CHARLESTON CAMPUS at MUSC would have responsibility for training all new medical students ? an estimated 200 ? during the first two "basic science" years of instruction. In the third year, about half the students would transfer to the Columbia campus for two years of clinical training at USC's Veterans Hospital campus and in area and regional hospitals. The Charleston campus, which has its own hospital, would continue "tertiary care" training in a wide variety of specialties, while the Columbia campus would focus on primary care. tjy eliminating the basic sciences program now at Columbia and achieving a other cost savings, the state would have "a f net savings of a bit over $5 million," the C report said in a "broad" estimate. \ Three alternate structures are included in r the report for the committee's consideration next week. The first two would place the 1 USC medical school under MUSC's ad- i ministration. The third would fold the entire '< medical university into the USC ad- < PREPARE FOR: MCAT DAT LSAT GMAT GRE GRE PSYCH ? 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USC HAS provided the Blue Ribbon Panel vith a "sizeable" amount of information to tid in the decision, said USC Provost Frank torkowski. "The university had the opportunity of >roviding the committee with data on the elation of the medical faculty to university acuity and information on the applicant kx)1," Borkowski said. "They had the opportunity to appear >efore the committee and express our riews. We gave them information we felt vould be of use to them," Borkowski said. A key portion of the draft report deals vith medical school enrollment and the tvailable pool of medical school applicants n South Carolina. IN A FINDING The State said is already ipproved by the cqmmittee, the report says 'the current number of South Carolina esidents who apply and are qualified to inroll in medical school is insufficient to upport entry into the South Carolina chools of more than about 200, or 50 percent >f the applicant pool." The two schools now admit 213 students tach year. USC is scheduled to boost its intering enrollment from 48 to about 100 >ver the next several years for a projected otal of 265 first-year students at both chools. The committee concludes that the state hould guard against lowering its student juality by limiting enrollment to 200 itudents per year. The committee is expected to hold an idditional meeting after Wednesday before iresentine its final renort March 3 to the Commission of Higher Education, which vill consider and possibly alter the ecommendations. In turn, the Commission on Higher Education will transmit its recom nendations to the General Assembly, where iction would be required before any merger ;ouldtake place. Excellent summer couns and women who are int< girls ages 7-16, guiding tt and spiritual develoDmei Camp IT ^sm j\ will dedicate their whole individual child develop apply. 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"Students will drink if they want; we're trying to help them make decisions about how they drink. We're not prohibitionists or preachers." CAP, founded in 1977 by USC and the S.C. Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, has branches at many S.C. schools of higher education. THE USC PROJECT works with similar campus groups like BACCHUS and the Greek GAMMA program. Shaver said CAP's major function is to inform students by using literature, an open library and alcohol and drug abuse counseling. It also presents lectures to University 101 classes. CAP information addresses the physiological and social problems of alcohol, Shaver said. "Students don't know as much about alcohol as you might think," he said. "Alcohol is a drug, and students don't think much about what it does." Not all students cope well with social drinking and school problems. The project tries to help them find out about themselves so they can decide how they want to handle drinking, Shaver said. 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