Hyperbaric oxygen training in medical schools

[Guest guest]

Mister Freels:

You have been misinformed - the University of California, Irvine has supported and publisized the following types of instruction:

1. Post-graduate:

A. Orientation courses for practicing physcians: periodically each year commencing in 1971 and continues to this date.

B. Two week orientation for interns and residents - an elective choice to the physician.

C. A one year fellowship to compliment a residency in emergency medicine.Past participants in this program are directors of active Hyperbaric Medicine programs in the United States.

2. Undergraduate:

A. Second year medical students at their election spend one-half day a week for three months under the tutilage of the Director and the Director Emeritus - both having professorial appointments with the University of California (over twenty years). The elder's appointment was established in 1968.

B. Senior medical students may elect a two week full time rotation during their elective period.

We are saddened by your misinformation and hopefully this will bring you and the participants our efforts in teaching.

GB Hart MD FACS

Memorial Medical Center Long Beach California

University of California, Irvine