RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
To assist the Medical School in this program
for the improvement of teaching and research in
psychiatry the Foundation contributed toward
laboratory expenses and the salary of additional
personnel during the academic year 1934-35. In
1935 it made an appropriation of $36,000 to continue
this support for a period of two years.
School of Medicine of the University of Colorado
Teaching Psychiatry in Medical, Surgical, and
Obstetrical Clinics
The outstanding center of psychiatric training
ancl research in the Western United States is
the Colorado Psychiatric Hospital. The School
of Medicine of the University of Colorado is
affiliated with this hospital and thus its students
profit from the excellent facilities for the study of
mental diseases. As a result the course in psychiatry
offered at the school is one of unusual
excellence. In 1934 the school undertook to introduce
psychiatric teaching into its medical,
surgical, and obstetrical clinics for the purpose
of demonstrating the application of psychiatric
knowledge to the study of physical maladies.
The Rockefeller Foundation agreed to assist in
this project for a period of one year by providing
the salary of a psychiatrist to act as consultant
and teacher in the various clinics, and the salaries
of a social worker and a secretary. In 1935 it
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