Report on the Model Legislation Project for Physician's Assistants conducted at Duke University, Durham, NC during 1969 and 1970 to develop a legislative proposal under which physician's assistants could be accommodated into the legal framework of...
A memorandum sent to Duke Administrators from Dr. Robert Howard dated August 17, 1971 updating them on progress made by the AMA to develop Educational Essentials for the assistant to the primary care physician. Dr. Howard refers readers to the attached...
This document contains a list of quotations "of nurses who work with University trained physician's assistants." The comments are from a study apparently conducted in 1971 by the Duke University Physician's Associate Program. All types of nursing...
In this letter David E. Lewis, the Associate Director of the Duke PA program, describes the AMA's visit that had taken place the previous week. The schedule of their activities is attached.
Proceedings of a meeting held at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC in 1969 to introduce the PA concept to Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, representatives of the Bylaws Subcommittee, the hospital's legal...
A discussion paper distributed by Eugene A. Stead, Jr. to the Medical School Advisory Council (MedSAC) at Duke University on April 10, 1972 providing background information about the physician's assistant program and requesting that the Medical School...
This draft paper was authored by Dr. William DeMaria, Assistant Dean, Duke University Medical School. Dr. DeMaria chaired a Subcommittee on the Physician and His Associates in Health for the Bureau of Health Services, DHEW in 1968. Since the paper...
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about the physician's associate concept. The pamphlet provides background information and describes the...
This packet of materials provides an overview of the PA curriculum that was in place in 1968 at Duke University. The curriculum was developed under the "guidance of an Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the Vice Provost." The twenty-four month curriculum...
This is an interim report dated September 1970 providing data on survey mailed to physician members of the North Carolina State Medical Society. The survey was mailed to 3825 physicians and the response rate was 49.9%. Of those responding, 43 %...