Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the development of a national certifying examination for physician assistants. The article describes the development of educational essentials and the need to develop...
Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association( discussing the development of the physician's assistant concept, the AMA's and other organizations' interest in the concept, the potential duties of PAs, their acceptance by patients...
News release by the National Board of Medical Examiners on August 6, 1972 announcing need to "determine the best way of developing nationally valid certifying examinations that will ensure the orderly development of the concept of the assistant to the...
Article from the American Medical Association information bulletin January 1972, describing the development of accreditation essentials for different types of physician assistants being trained at different levels of responsibility across a wide range...
Summary minutes of meeting held on November 28, 1973, in Chicago, IL. Representatives of national health care professional organizations met to discuss the formation of a national commission to oversee the certification of physician's assistants. The...
Correspondence from John Glasson, MD, North Carolina Medical Society, to E. Harvey Estes, Jr., MD, Chair of the Department of Community Health Services, Duke University Medical Center, indicating that report to Board of Trustees had been filed...