This memorandum from Dr. E. Harvey Estes to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University dated September 29, 1969 request that the physician's assistant curriculum be upgraded to the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. Dr. Estes provides the rationale and need...
In his memorandum sent to Drs. Howard and Bulger at Duke University, Mr. Keller sets forth parameters for the Tuition Loan program for the Duke University PA program. According to the letter, "the plan will generate sufficient cash to support the...
This letter from Dr. Estes to Dr. Kinney dated May 2, 1972 describes plans to begin charging tuition to PA students entering the fall of 1972. He asks formal approval of the Deferred Tuition plan so that it can be implemented before the September 1...
Dr. Robert Howard writes to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University on November 24, 1971 suggesting that President Richard Nixon be invited to speak at the forthcoming annual conference on physician's assistants to be held April 20 and 21, 1972 in Durham....
This brief letter dated November 12, 1972 from Dr. Kinney at Duke was sent to Dr. John A. D. Cooper, President, AAMC, with enclosed minutes of the ad hoc Advisory Committee on the Physician's Assistants. Dr. Copper responds on September 4, 1973...
This letter dated December 13, 1971 from Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University summarizes steps taken from September 1969 to December 12, 1970 to gain approval of the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. Committees established,...
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...
Letter from Frederic N. Cleaveland, Provost, to Thomas D. Kinney, Director of Medical and Allied Health Education, at Duke University granting "my formal approval of the proposed special program for the Physician's Associate and to authorize you to...
This letter dated September 4, 1973 calling a meeting of the Special Committee on the Role of the Physician's Assistant in the Hospital was sent to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University by Dr. Bruce A. Raymond, Secretary, American Hospital Association....
This letter dated April 5, 1974 was sent to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke by Dr. Bruce A. Raymond, Director, Division of Professional Support Services, American Hospital Association, stating that the Special Committee's work had been deemed completed and...