The University is one of the original eight founding institutions of the Council of Teaching Hospitals, whose members are participating in the conference. The convention officially began yesterday and will continue run through today. Yesterday's programs included individual group meetings for financial officers, medical officers, and nursing officers. Today the participants will discuss the future of national health care. The Council is a branch of the Association of American Medical Colleges which includes medical schools, teaching hospitals and academic societies which work for "the improvement of the nation's health through the advancement of academic medicine." The 400 schools in the Council, which was founded in 1965, train over 80 percent of all the medical residents in the U.S., according to Acting Manager of Media Relations Rebecca Harmon. -- David Black
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