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...
This article was written by Laura Mae Kress, Information Officer, Division of Allied Health Manpower, Bureau of Health Manpower, National Institutes of Health in 1971. It provides a good background on the evolution of the PA concept, support for its...
This report was prepared by the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, DHEW to send to Congress in June 1971. The 1970 Public Health Service Act (Sec. 799A) required the Secretary to submit a report "identifying the major...
This monograph published in 1972 by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) was written by Patrick B. Storey, MD as part of a series of studies on medicine and public health in the Soviet Union conducted in the summer of 1970. The...
This article appearing in the April 25, 1972 issue of the NIH Record, published by the National Institutes of Health, announces the training of PA students from Duke University "at the Clinical Center on a trial basis." The article indicates that two...
Pamphlet published in 1974 by the Public Health Service describing various positions available in the National Health Service Corp created by the Emergency Health Personnel Act of 1970 to place physicians and other health professionals into areas that...
This 1975 report to the congress was compiled by the Comptroller General of the United States to (1) report on the problems that hamper the extenders in improving health care delivery and (2) present recommendations to the Secretary of Health,...
Pamphlet produced by the Public Health Service to announce employment opportunities for physician's assistants in the National Health Service Corps established in 1970. Entrance level salaries are $9,969 (GS-7) and $11,029 (GS-9). The salaries have...
Casper W. Weinberger, HEW Secretary, announces awarding $6.2 million in contracts and grants in Fiscal 1973 to institutions in 24 states and the DC to train PAs for primary care. A list of institution and amounts awarded is provided. The news release...