This is a description of the recertification examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistant on March 21, 1981 at test centers and at the 9th Annual PA Conference in San Diego, CA on April 15, 1981. Example...
In his 27 February 1981 letter to William Stanhope, Dick Rensch reacts strongly to a recent memorandum sent by Mr. Stanhope to "all PAs" voicing his concerns about the NCCPA's "proposed mechanism for recertification of PA-0Cs." In the attached...
This early 1981 memorandum was sent by Clara Vanderbilt, AAPA Representative to the NCCPA, to eligible PAs urging them to register for the recertification examination. She attributes the low registration to date "mainly to the short, and apparently...
This is application form that was mailed with the announcement of the 1975 certifying examination to be administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants (NCCPA) in November. An attached return card is used by the NCCPA...
This 6 October 1980 memorandum was sent by the NCCPA Board of Directors to PAs who were eligible for recertification letting them know that the "NCCPA will administer its first recertification process by June 1, 1981." A three-year investigation of...
This pamphlet distributed by the National Commission describes the National Certifying Examination for Primary Care Physician Assistants and Proficiency Examination in Surgery to be held October 8-11, 1980. An overview of the examination procedures and...
This letter from Dick Rensch, executive secretary of the Wyoming Association of Physicians' Assistants, to David [Glazer], Executive Director, National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants, was "to re-establish and re-confirm the...
Correspondence from Committee on Type-A Professional Dialectics to Dr. Robert E. Reiheld, Chairman of the AMA Council on Rural Health, dated February 10, 1974. Four individuals co-signed the letter for a committee created by "practicing Duke-prototype...
Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association discussing the development of a national certifying examination for physician assistants. The article describes the development of educational essentials and the need to develop...
This report was prepared by the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, DHEW to send to Congress in June 1971. The 1970 Public Health Service Act (Sec. 799A) required the Secretary to submit a report "identifying the major...