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8 Third- and fourth-year class sizes increase to 50 students. The Women's Research Institute and its applied arm, the Center for Reproductive Medicine, are founded as joint ventures of Wesley Medical Center and KU School of Medicine-Wichita. 1981 1984 Donna Sweet, M.D., begins her practice on the Wichita campus serving HIV-positive individuals. 1982 have their clinical experiences — made it attractive. But many questions about its suitability and the school's continued viability in general hovered as KUSM-Wichita moved there, at first on a temporary basis, in 1977. A big improvement it was not — at least not initially. The county continued to use nearly half the facility as a "poor hospital." As Craig Miner wrote in his 2005 history of the school, "There was a strong smell of urine, alcohol fumes and vomit." "We were all rather devastated to learn that's where we would be moving," Dicker said. "On moving day, we arrived and the ceiling had fallen in. We went and got an old nylon parachute so the birds couldn't get through and we would have a clean ceiling." In a 2014 interview, Garold Minns, M.D., dean of KUSM-Wichita and part of its second graduating class, said the building "looked like a hospital that had been abandoned." Late that same year, the Kansas Board of Regents decided E.B. Allen should be the school's permanent home and in 1980, the Kansas Legislature approved a three-phase, $4.5-million renovation plan. Despite renovations, the school's original use can still be guessed at today in the overall design of the building. E.B. Allen was made up of two long wings that housed the hospital's wards, designed in the days before private and semiprivate rooms were the norm. Hideous green tile covered virtually everything. "Basically, each floor was gutted, and they went back in and put in new walls and hallways and doors," Wiese said. Other old features are just memories. For instance, the emergency room sat where the main lobby is located today. A man in a wheelchair ran a sandwich stand near the present library, the courtyard held loading docks and Roberts Amphitheater was a pigeon-infested boiler room. The first floor of the new west wing was added in 1995. The second story was added in 2010 in anticipation of the