Letter regarding the "Ohio surgical assistants", of which Vanderbilt believes "it's perfectly apparent to everyone at this point that graduates of this program are not type A Physician's Assistants".
This article by Louis Rousselot, MD, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Environment, appeared in the December 1971 issue of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. The article describes the need for physician's assistants,...
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...
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 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...