ARMY
COURSE IN BASIC SCIENCES FOR MEDICAL OFFICERS
Sixty-four of the nation's outstanding clinicians and medical investigators comprise the visiting faculty for the annual course in basic science recently opened at the Army Medical Research and Graduate School, Washington, D. C., which course is being pursued by a group of medical officers selected from Army installations throughout the country. The twenty-one week course is divided into three categories: (1) the utilization and metabolism by the total organism of the essential substances, water, electrolytes, carbohydrates, proteins and other accessory substances; (2) the subjects advanced by category 1 are elaborated on in category 2 in discussions concerning aberrations by the body in handling the substances when affected by such modifying agents as bacteria, heat and cold, heredity, rate of growth and development, the effect of radiation and drugs, etc., and (3) review of most of the basic subjects.On opening the