THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

The Louisiana State University Medical Center has teaching, research, and health-care functions statewide, through its six professional schools, as well as the more than 100 hospitals and other health-care related institutions throughout the state, region, nation, and the world with which they maintain affiliations.

Component professional schools, each headed by a dean that now comprise the Medical Center include, in the order of their establishment:

The School of Medicine in New Orleans, 1931

The School of Graduate Studies, 1965

The School of Dentistry, 1966

The School of Medicine in Shreveport, 1966

The School of Nursing, 1968

The School of Allied Health Professions, 1970.

The Library of the Medical Center consists of two major depositories that serve the six professional schools, with a combined total of about 250,000 volumes, and a current periodical title list in excess of 2,000 covering the complete range of health sciences. A computerized listing of periodical holdings of the three depositories is maintained. Extensive holdings of audio-visual materials, including video cassette tapes, are additionally available. Through a cooperative program of inter-library loan, the holdings of any of the facilities can be made available to any member of the faculty or any student in any of the schools. Also, holdings of other library facilities of the LSU system, located state-wide, aggregating more than one-million volumes, are available for utilization.

The Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans

The LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans is part of one of the world's largest medical complexes, located in about ten square blocks near the principal business district of New Orleans. The School, established by the Board of Supervisors, was opened October 1, 1931, in a nine-story building erected adjacent to the 2,200-bed Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans, one of the major clinical facilities of the nation. This site was selected because the hospital offered clinical problems, patients and facilities needed to develop and maintain an outstanding program of medical education and research.

In 1954 a nine-story addition and parallel four-story unit to the original building was completed. Work was finished in 1964 on a $6.3 million building-expansion program, embodied in two major projects, three five-story additions to existing facilities, providing for research expansion and a parking area, and an 11-story residence hall and student center located within walking distance of the School.

In early 1976, construction was started on a $32.4 million high-rise education building for the Medical Center, located adjacent to the Residence Hall and Student Center. This building began operation in May of 1981 and houses the basic science faculty and the teaching facilities for the first and second year students of medicine. Graduate, Nursing, and Allied Health students also have certain courses scheduled in the building.