House Bill 229, approved by the 1962 General Assembly, directed the Council of Higher Education to "make a careful and comprehensive study of the feasibility and advisability of establishing a private school of medicine in the Tidewater area."

The report submitted herewith is in response to the directive of the General Assembly, and is entitled "Physicians for Virginia-Part II." Part I of the study is in response to the directive of Senate Joint Resolution No. 44 of the 1962 General Assembly, asking the Council to make a statewide study of medical education. With two directives aimed at related concerns, it was deemed appropriate to treat these two studies as parts of a general and comprehensive study.

Both parts of the study were conducted under the guidance of an advisory committee. In general, the same persons and organizations were involved in both efforts. To these the Council again, expressed its gratitude for their generous and able contributions.

Both parts of the study were accepted and endorsed by the Council at its meeting on December 9, 1963 and are being published and released simultaneously. In endorsing the report on Part II of the study, herewith submitted, the Council is conscious that the specialized financial requirements involved in any proposal to establish a private medical school in Virginia would not materially affect the financial resources upon which existing private colleges must necessarily rely.

Respectfully submitted,

William Hugh McFarlane, Director