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For thousands of senior high school students, the new ac» demic year will be a year of serious questions, and event ual decision. Many will be tab ing the first steps toward choosing a career. Will it, perhaps be lh science? If the answer is yes, Virginia Heart Association has a stake in their future, and a program that can guide and help these students to tbeir goal. The motive? Heart Asso ciations — and the American people — are banking on the boy. next door and the girl around the corner to help break through existing barriers of ignorance and bring us closer to universal health. The heed for new blood and new brains in many fields oi scientific investigation is ur^ gent. By 1970, for example, 77.000 trained scientists will be needed to do medical research—compared to the 40.000 active in 1960. By 1975 — less than 10 years from now — conservative estimates put the need for physicians at 346,000, compared with 276.000 currently practicing. There are now 550,000 pro fessional nurses; the figure should grow to 680,000 by 1970. This is only part of the pio ture. For every physician now practicing, there are approx! mately 12 persons working in careers allied to medicine. Hand-in-hand with the growing need for more doctors, then, goes a mounting demand for man - and woman power to staff the hospitals, laboratories and other facilities providing medi cal care and services for our growing population. In the next 5 to 10 years, for example, medical leaders estimate that the nation will
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