The six-session series, offered twice a week by Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) in conjunction with Vermont Law School (VLS) and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, will explore provocative scientific, societal and ethical issues being generated by dramatic strides in biomedical research.

DMS Dean John C. Baldwin and VLS Dean L. Kinvin Wroth will make brief remarks at the opening session.

"Breathtaking gains in knoledge of medicine and human biology have brought with them troubling new questions that society is struggling to address," according to Dr. Donald St. Germain, director of Dartmouth Community Medical School (DCMS). "The complexity and ambiguity of the ethical, spiritual, legal and economic issues being raised contrast sharply with the elegance of the scientific insights that researchers are providing."

DCMS, initiated by Dean Baldwin, drew capacity audiences for its first course in 1999, offered last spring in Hanover and repeated last fall in Manchester. More than 400 people have registered for spring 2000. The first session is repeated Thursday, April 6, in Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall at Dartmouth College.

Please call to schedule interviews, "live" shots and/or photo opportunities on opening night or for any subsequent sessions.

WHAT: Dartmouth Community Medical School, Spring Course, "Medicine 2000-New Options, Hard Choices"

WHERE: Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, Kellogg Auditorium

WHEN: Tuesday, April 4, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

PROGRAM: "Infertility: The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat."

A complete schedule is included.

Hali Wickner