RT Journal
T1 NEws and comment
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1949
FD August 1
VO 84
IS 2
SP 355
OP 356
DO 10.1001/archinte.1949.00230020158009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1949.00230020158009
AB GENERAL NEWS 
    Postgraduate Courses at University of California. 
    —The University of California Medical School, San Francisco, will hold a postgraduate course on physics in radiation therapy, September 6 through September 9. The course will consist of ten lectures by Dr. Edith H. Quimby, Associate Professor of Radiology, Columbia University, on physics as it pertains to ionizing radiations. Emphasis will be placed on the basic principles and their application to problems of therapy. The course wll be of particular interest to radiologists, dermatologists and gynecologists.The University of California has also scheduled a course in the medical aspects of nuclear energy, to be given from August 29 through September 3. Subjects to be discussed include fission and the chain reaction; the pile and the bomb; principles and applications of radioactive tracers to the medical and biologic sciences; diagnostic applications of artificial radioactivity; treatment of leukemias and allied conditions with radiophosphorus; radioiodine