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354 6 years in the new building, nearly 1,000 foreign nationals from over 40 countries attended courses or received training at the Institute. 13

So great is the interest in the Institute's intramural educational program that the number of "student days" — a method of measurement that reflects both the number of students attending and the length of time attended — increased from 6,000 in 1958, to more than 27,000 in 1961.

"Because of the demands upon the professional time of the staff, space and support personnel," the i960 annual report said, "the educational program appears to have reached the saturation point within the present Institute capabilities." 14

A major feature of the extramural educational effort of the Institute continues to be lending study sets for the use of physicians both within and without the ranks of the Armed Forces. The growing demand for these loan sets for study purposes called for making up new sets, increasing the number and variety of those offered, and repairing old and wornout sets, even though this meant that an "inordinate amount of time and effort" had to be spent in this activity. The demands for the sets was so great, however, and their use was so much appreciated, that it was deemed impossible to reduce their circulation of approximately 5,000 sets a year. 15 The outreach of the Institute is further strengthened by its active program of encouraging the utilization of its research riches in the preparation and publication of articles for publication in the scientific press. There are few fields of scientific investigation so prolific in publication as are the medical, dental, and veterinary disciplines, and few institutions of scientific investigation have been so active in the dissemination of research findings as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. This applies both to work done by members of the staff and also by others who have been associated directly or indirectly with the Institute.

The result has been a program of publications noteworthy in quality and volume. In 1949, the year the Institute became representative of the three armed services, publications numbered 29. In 1955, the year the new building was occupied, the number of articles published was 35. Forty-one articles appeared in 1956, and 43 in 1957. In 1958, publication reached a new high of 77 items, with 76 in the next year, 82 in i960, and 91 in 1961. The sharp increase, it will be noted, did not come about until the third year in the new building, reflecting the time lapse involved in the process of research, writing, and edi-