Med School I.D.s

This year all students and faculty at the Medical School will be required to wear badges with their pictures on them in order to gain entrance to the school's buildings.

Med School students now carry plastic identification cards with their pictures attached, but the photo badges will include larger pictures and will save students the trouble of having to pull out an I.D. card to show building guards, Paula O'Malley, action information desk manager at the Med School, said yesterday.

O'Malley said the photographs for the badges are being taken now.

Many hospitals affiliated with the Medical School already use photo badges for security.

O'Malley said the new photo badges will not bear an individual's name--just his number.