In this memo, sent to the Bureau of Health Manpower Education, the AMA, the NBME, and the American Registry of Physician's Associates, Alfred and Blair Sadler express their uncertainty about several Yale physicians being contacted to serve on the...
This document contains a list of quotations "of nurses who work with University trained physician's assistants." The comments are from a study apparently conducted in 1971 by the Duke University Physician's Associate Program. All types of nursing...
An article from Intercom, a newsletter from the Duke University Medical Center, vol. 18, no. 35, September 17, 1971. The article has pictures and a summary of the Duke PA program graduation, and talks about the origins of the Scheele award.
In this letter David E. Lewis, the Associate Director of the Duke PA program, describes the AMA's visit that had taken place the previous week. The schedule of their activities is attached.
Proceedings of a meeting held at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC in 1969 to introduce the PA concept to Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, representatives of the Bylaws Subcommittee, the hospital's legal...
A discussion paper distributed by Eugene A. Stead, Jr. to the Medical School Advisory Council (MedSAC) at Duke University on April 10, 1972 providing background information about the physician's assistant program and requesting that the Medical School...
This draft paper was authored by Dr. William DeMaria, Assistant Dean, Duke University Medical School. Dr. DeMaria chaired a Subcommittee on the Physician and His Associates in Health for the Bureau of Health Services, DHEW in 1968. Since the paper...
In this article reprinted from the Annual Review of Medicine, Dr. Stead reviews a number of developments "in which nurses are assuming functions traditionally reserved in our culture for doctors, or where new programs are training various types of...
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about the physician's associate concept. The pamphlet provides background information and describes the...