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...
News release from the American Medical Association dated September 12, 1972 announcing the approval of the first PA training programs approved by accreditation. The programs receiving approval were: Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, WV; Bowman-Gray...
This study guide accompanied film produced by the Veterans Administration Medical Media Network at Duke University in 1970-71 titled "Status Report: The Physician's Assistant." The study guide contains pre and post tests, a description of points of...
Dr. Davison, former Dean of the Duke University Medical School, sent E. Harvey Estes, Jr. this letter in 1968 with a clipping from Newsweek Magazine about an individual who had masqueraded as a physician in small town in Texas. When asked many of the...
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about admissions into the Duke PA program. The pamphlet provides a brief overview of the program, admission...
These are proposed guidelines for the educational essentials for the physician's assistants prepared by a task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants and the...
Correspondence from Gregory Gilreath, President of the American College of Physicians Assistants to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University Physician Assistant Program, describing the activities of the College to align itself with the...