Chapter 04: The Graduate School of Biomedical Science: Creating A Unique Approach to Biomedical Education
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In this segment Dr. Stancel talks about the environment of young institutions in place when he came to Texas in the Seventies. He talks about the founding of the Graduate School and recalls R. Lee Clark’s vision of researchers in basic sciences working alongside clinical researchers and those delivering patient care (an early version of translational research). He observes that to bring this environment into being in the GSBS, the faculty faced dual challenges: building careers and defining the identity of an institution made unique by its relationship to a cancer center and a mission to promote interdisciplinary communication among cancer scientists from many areas. Dr. Stancel describes how the GSBS preserves interdisciplinary breadth of education while developing programs with focal points defined by faculty interests. He sketches the major tasks of the GSBS during each decade of its existence, focusing in particular on the challenge of lobbying the Texas legislature to allow the MD Anderson to award graduate degrees jointly with the Health Science Center --the first instance, Dr. Stancel, notes, of a dedicated cancer center becoming a degree-granting institution.
Publication Date
1-24-2012
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
George Stancel, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 24, 2012
Topics Covered
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Building the Institution; Multi-disciplinary Approaches; Building/Transforming the Institution; Education; Evolution of Career; Professional Practice; The Professional at Work; Collaborations; Leadership; Mentoring; The Educator; Beyond the Institution; MD Anderson and Government
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Stancel, George M. PhD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 04: The Graduate School of Biomedical Science: Creating A Unique Approach to Biomedical Education" (2012). Interview Chapters. 1470.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1470
Conditions Governing Access
Open
