Department of Health, Education and Welfare announces awarding $4 million in contracts in Fiscal 1972 to 25 institutions training PAs for primary care. A list of institutions and amounts awarded is provided. This is first time these type programs have...
A paper written in 1972 by Dr. D. Robert Howard at Duke University describes the role that PAs can play in remote areas if the "dependent" role of the PA to the physician is based on supervision and not on location. He argues that this mutually binding...
In his February 9, 1972 letter, Carl R. Trask, director, Saint John General Hospital, Saint John, N.B. Candada, ask Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, director, Duke Hospital, Durham, NC for a job description for physicians assistants and a copy of suggested bylaw...
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...
Minutes of the first meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs held November 10, 1972 at the Cloyd Heck Marvin Student Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC. The by-laws were "discussed page by page, with suggestions...
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...
Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association( discussing the development of the physician's assistant concept, the AMA's and other organizations' interest in the concept, the potential duties of PAs, their acceptance by patients...
Donald Wasson, Assistant Administrator of Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan, IL writes this letter to David W. Stickney, Associate Director of the Illinois Hospital Association in November 3, 1972 to inform him that "our medical staff and Board of...
This article appearing in the October 1972 issue of The National Board Examiner provides an overview of actions and steps taken by the National Board of Medical Examiners to produce a "national program to certify assistants to the primary care...
This brochure published by the American Academy of Physicians' Associates in 1972 provides information about the history, goals and mission of the Academy while it was still based in North Carolina. The reason for the name change from "assistant" to...