Article publicizes the use of physician's assistants to address America's shortage of skilled health personnel based upon a meeting held in Durham, NC on Friday 13th, November, 1970 [i.e., the Third Duke Conference]. The article highlights statements...
This letter from Dr. William Anlyan, Dean, School of Medicine, Duke University, dated February 1, 1966 requests eleven individuals to serve on an ad hoc committee to "explore the possible types of models of physicians' assistants who may be trained at...
Preprinted brochure from American Association of Physician Assistants with major headings: Purpose and Major Goals; Membership; AAPA Programs and Objectives; and Newsletter, Seminars and Conferences (membership fee $60), 2 pages, front and back, text.
First by-laws adopted and revised at the first formal meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs held November 10, 1972 at George Washington University, Washington, DC and mailed to member programs by Susan Greenberg, APAP secretary, on...
Three articles about PA Educational Programs appeared in this 1972 issue of The Advisor, a newsletter published by Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. D. Robert Howard's article is titled "The Duke Physician's Associate Program: An Interim...
This monograph published in 1972 by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) was written by Patrick B. Storey, MD as part of a series of studies on medicine and public health in the Soviet Union conducted in the summer of 1970. The...
This letter dated February 4, 1970 from Mrs. Ballenger to Dr. Kinney at Duke includes a second draft "of the legislative proposal" being developed by the task force assembled for this purpose. Ms. Ballenger states that "the October Conference [second...
This is a series of letters written by Dr. Davison, former Dean of the Duke University Medical School, discussing the legal and professional liability issues involved in using medical students as externs. Dr. Davison has employed medical students...
Memorandum from Dale R. Lindsay, Associate Director of Medical and Allied Health Education, to Thomas Kinney, Dean of Medical Education, stating that he found "the long range prospects for allied health at Duke as dim unless we can resolve them soon...