Dr. Harvey Estes, chair of Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, writes January 19, 1970 to Dr. Barnes Woodhall, Chancellor of Duke University, to request that he send letters of support to the Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation and...
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 guidelines...
The Ad Hoc Committee report classified physician assistants according to the degree of specialization, level of clinical decision-making (judgment) and length of training. These types "are distinguished primarily by the nature of the service each is...
The purpose of this workbook was "to establish a frame of reference for evaluation of emerging health occupations (loosely categorized as 'physician's assistants' within the format of Guidelines for Development of New Health Occupations." The committee...
This manuscript announces the [Duke University] Department of Community Health Sciences being awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in order to establish and study a different form of health care delivery to an indigent population located in...
A bulletin describing the newly established Purser-Marine Physician Assistant Program based in the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, New York. The bulletin contains the logo of the program and pictures of students in training and...
A 1971 progress report written by Dr. Malcolm Todd, Chairman of the AMA's Council on Health Manpower to "report the progress that has been made by our Council on Health Manpower in working closely with medical specialty societies in the development and...
Announcement of the third annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC on November 12 and 13, 1970. Workshops focused upon: legal, education, research and evaluation, administration and application (utilization...
This article written in 1971 by J. Kadish of the AMA and JW Long of the NIH was intended to update physicians about the PA movement. The authors provide a history of use of non-physician personnel to deliver health care services (feldshers, assistant...
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...