The Washington Hospital Center proposed to expand its cardiovascular technician program into a physician's assistant program and sent a proposal for funding to the Metropolitan Washington Regional Medical Program. The proposal raised many questions...
Program for the Third Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants held at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC on November 12 and 13, 1970. Workshops focused on: legal, education, research and evaluation, administration and application (utilization of PAs...
Letter from Stephen L. Joyner, AAPA Board of Directors, to D. Robert Howard, Director of Duke University PA program, informing him that the North Carolina Medical Society had approved the AAPA application to exhibit at upcoming meeting. An attached...
Correspondence between Eugene A. Stead, Jr. and Karl E. Krill, Dean, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI in November and December 1970 describing an objective method of comparing the diagnostic capabilities of non-physicians. Dean Krill provides a...
This article written by Frank Riddick, Jr. MD, chairman of the ASIM's Allied Health Professionals Committee, appeared in the October issue of The Internist published by the American Society of Internal Medicine. Dr. Riddick states that legislation will...
This AMA feature appeared in the September 14, 1970 issue of JAMA and summarizes a recent speech made by Walter C. Bornemeier, MD, president of the AMA, stating importance of "establishing training facilities now for medical [physician's] assistants,...
Jerry Bredouw's response to D. Robert Howard thanking him for responding to "my efforts on the recent Bold Ones." He mentions response to the episode and support of Joe Donovan at the Santa Clara Medical Society who helped pass California Law 2109...
In his December 10, 1970 letter to Drs. Bulger, Kinney and Anlyan at Duke University, Dr. D. Robert Howard proposes to change the name of the Duke PA Program from "assistant" to "associate" to "differentiate the professional type of physician's...
Photograph of Duke PA students in a classroom setting at the Medical Center in 1970 that appeared in Medical Group News, December 1970 article on physician assistants. The photograph depicts students in a small conference room being taught vascular...