A 1964 letter from Eugene A. Stead, Jr. to Charles H. Frenzel at Duke Hospital expressing desire to meet to discuss establishing an educational program to train physician's assistants. Dr. Stead writes "During the next ten years I would like to...
This news release titled "Job Description for MD Assistants" appeared in the July 5, 1972 issue of Drug Research Reports. The article states that the job description "was spelled out in proposed regs published in the Federal Register June 29 as...
1971 informational pamphlet distributed by Duke University PA Program to potential candidates for admissions. The pamphlet provides brief history of program, efforts to define PA professional role, the curriculum, professional mobility, admission...
This memorandum dated January 28, 1972 was sent by Stuart M. Sessions, Office of the Director, Duke Hospital to members of the hospitals advisory committee indicating that Dr. Estes and Dr. Ball "have developed a position description for the...
Guidelines distributed by the Hospital Association of New York State to hospital administrators who expect to utilize physician associates employed either by private physicians using their hospitals or by the hospital itself based on recent state...
This one page article with photo of Duke University physician's assistants in training appeared in the US News & World Report on September 8, 1969. The article begins "You may one day find your doctor less harried, able to give you more time....
This memorandum has an attachment that outlines the organizational structure of the Bragtown/Rougemont community health projects. The responsibilities of the physician's assistants are provided. Joyce Nichols and Prentiss Harrison,...
This workbook contains an agenda and materials for a meeting of the Task Force to Draft Essentials of an Approved Educational Program for Physician's Assistants held at the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago, IL on Friday, May 21, 1971. The meeting...
A paper written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 indicating that the planners of the Duke PA program had intentionally "avoided a detailed job description because we have proceeded with the program without any provision for licensing the...
Monograph (circular) distributed by Veterans Administration, Department of Medicine and Surgery to directors, VA Hospitals, Domiciliary, etc. providing "guidelines for utilization and levels of activity for PAs employed at VA stations." The...