TY - JOUR T1 - GOvernment services Y1 - 1949/03/12 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900280039015 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 723 EP - 724 VL - 139 IS - 11 N2 - SECRETARY OF DEFENSE  COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ARMED FORCES  Secretary of Defense Forrestal has announced the appointment of a committee which will advise the armed forces on medical policies and programs. The members of this committee, which will succeed the Hawley Committee, are Charles P. Cooper, president, Board of Trustees, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, chairman; Drs. Maurice C. Pincoffs, Baltimore; Edward D. Churchill, Boston; Richard L. Meiling, Columbus, Ohio; Howard A. Rusk, New York; Paul Titus, Pittsburgh; Paul Hawley, Chicago; Michael DeBakey, Houston, Texas; Raymond B. Allen, Seattle, Wash.; Walter H. Schere, D.D.S., Houston, Texas, and the three surgeons general.ARMY  WOMEN'S MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS  Training courses to qualify applicants for appointment in the Women's Medical Specialist Corps of the Regular Army will be offered beginning in September 1949. The training program will include a dietetic internship, a physical therapy training course and an occupational therapy clinical affiliation. The SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900280039015 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900280039015 ER -