| | Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false | | Shely attended Campbellsville University, then known as Campbellsville Junior College, from 1941 to 1943, at which he was named the "Best All-Around Student."<ref name=doctors>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWdRi04qV7EC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Dr.+Forest+Shely&source=bl&ots=9-1oYl_zsx&sig=ovkLHjyAU9fIVoot_BpD42-Be-8&hl=en&ei=LC06Tf_6AcKclgfT_dSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20Forest%20Shely&f=false |
| − | |author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN = 978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/> | + | |author=William Lynwood Montell|title=Tales from Kentucky Doctors|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|ISBN = 978-0-8131-2482-7|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He served in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.campbellsville.com/wp/2010/08/31/dr-forest-f-shely/|title=Dr. Forest F. Shely, Age 86|publisher=campbellsville.com|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref> He then continued his studies at Georgetown College, a small Baptist institution in Georgetown] Kentucky, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=doctors/> and [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1946. From 1946 to 1947, Shely attended Tufts University School of Medicine in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=assawards/> He interned from 1949 to 1950 at Good Samaritan Hospital in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], Kentucky.<ref name=doctors/> |