This memorandum reports on recent developments including: (1) approval to hold semiannual meeting with AAMC; (2) recommendation of program faculty to serve as site visitors for accreditation reviews; (3) inquiry to Dr. Sidney Marland, Assistant...
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...
Articles of incorporation of the American Registry of Physicians' Associates, signed by Robinson O. Everett, Martha D. Ballenger and D. Robert Howard on May 26, 1970. The initial Board of Directors included Robert Ewer, MD, University of Texas,...
Monograph (circular) distributed by Veterans Administration, Department of Medicine and Surgery to directors, VA Hospitals, Domiciliary, etc. providing "guidelines for utilization and levels of activity for PAs employed at VA stations." The guidelines...
James L Lippe of the Insurance Rating Board response to D. Robert Howard, PA program director at Duke University stating that a meeting of their Professional Liability Committee was forthcoming and that Dr. Howard's request to establish a liability...
The membership list of the American Registry of Physicians' Associates Board of Directors' meeting held on September 15, 1972, at the Hilton Inn (airport), Atlanta, GA. At this meeting a formal vote was taken to "form a new umbrella association" to be...
Announcement of the third annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC on November 12 and 13, 1970. Workshops focused upon: legal, education, research and evaluation, administration and application (utilization...
Preprinted brochure from American Association of Physician Assistants with major headings: Purpose and Major Goals; Membership; AAPA Programs and Objectives; and Newsletter, Seminars and Conferences (membership fee $60), 2 pages, front and back, text.
Letter from Paul F. Palace, Executive Director, American Association of Physician Assistants announcing formation of the organization and requesting distribution of enclosed preprinted brochure and posting of flyer (poster) on hospital bulletin boards.
Duke University Medical Center newsletter containing cartoon, photograph and article about Dick Moores publicizing physician's assistant programs in his comic strip, Gasoline Alley. The main characters in the comic strip, the Wallets, have a son,...
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...
1971 informational pamphlet distributed by Duke University PA Program to potential candidates for admissions. The pamphlet provides brief history of program, efforts to define PA professional role, the curriculum, professional mobility, admission...
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...
Minutes of subcommittee to draft essentials for an approved educational program for physician's assistants held in Chicago, IL on August 3-4, 1971 by the AMA's Council on Medical Education. A list of representatives is provided along with copy of draft...
Internal memorandum written by Colonel Nicholas C. Nicholas, USAF on October 31, 1972 listing actions accomplished, meeting scheduled and planning and coordination needing to be accomplished (with dates) to prepare for the Physician Assistant...
A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, outlining a plan to combine private and public sector funds to provide upper career mobility for...
News release by the National Board of Medical Examiners on August 6, 1972 announcing need to "determine the best way of developing nationally valid certifying examinations that will ensure the orderly development of the concept of the assistant to the...
Guidelines distributed by the Hospital Association of New York State to hospital administrators who expect to utilize physician associates employed either by private physicians using their hospitals or by the hospital itself based on recent state...
A monograph (white paper) released by the AMA Council on Health Manpower answering questions about the utilization of physician assistants. The paper describes the AMA's support of the development of education standards and national certification of...
Newspaper article appearing in the Hospital Tribune on November 1, 1971 stating that "Medex, specially trained assistants, have increased the doctor's capacity to provide patient care by more than 50% according to Dr. Richard A. Smith, Associate...
This news release dated December 15, 1968 states that "two of the nation's larger philanthropic foundations, Carnegie Corporation of new York and the Commonwealth Fund" will fund "an experimental program to prepare a wholly new type of professional...
This letter dated April 9, 1968 from Frank Goldsmith, Assistant Director for Special Staff Services, Office of Program Planning and Evaluation, Bureau of Health Services, DHEW, to Dr. William J. DeMaria at Duke University Medical Center, announces the...
This packet contains a letter from Dr. E.W. Furgurson, general practitioner, Plymouth, North Carolina, to Dr. W.C. Davison, with minutes from the November 18, 1967 conference continuing discussion on how to solve the plight of small communities' needs...
This letter from Dr. William Anlyan to Mr. Rufus H. Powell, III dated September 1, 1970 supports the establishment of the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree as proposed by "an ad hoc interschool committee with representatives from the School of...
This report on legal issues for physician assistants was presented by E. Harvey Estes, Jr. to the Health Advisory Committee of Duke University Medical Center on January 5, 1972. It describes the liability dangers faced by both the physician and...
This memorandum dated January 28, 1972 was sent by Stuart M. Sessions, Office of the Director, Duke Hospital to members of the hospitals advisory committee indicating that Dr. Estes and Dr. Ball "have developed a position description for the...
This packet of information assembled in 1971 contains information on the distribution of 41 graduates of the Duke University PA Program, the prior health-related backgrounds of graduates and students, a profile of the Class of 1971 and the didactic...
Return reply postcard used in 1971 to subscribe to the Physician's Associate, the Journal of the American Association of Physicians' Associates. The publisher was Charles B. Slack, Inc. One year subscription rate was $14.00.
The Ad Hoc Committee report classified physician assistants according to the degree of specialization, level of clinical decision-making (judgment) and length of training. These types "are distinguished primarily by the nature of the service each is...
A bulletin describing the newly established Purser-Marine Physician Assistant Program based in the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, New York. The bulletin contains the logo of the program and pictures of students in training and...
This letter dated September 30, 1966 from Dr. Bowers, President of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, to Dr. William Anlyan, Dean, School of Medicine at Duke University, states that the Board of Directors of the Foundation at its September 23, 1966...
This letter dated November 23, 1967 is from Dr. Ernest W. Furgurson to Dr. W.C. Davison, former Dean, School of Medicine, Duke University, thanking Dr. Davison for helping to form a panel to discuss the plight of physicians in the small communities...
In his October 3, 1968 letter to Dr. William Anlyan, Dean of the Medical School, Dr. D. Robert Howard indicates that the AMA Council on Medical Education will not be sponsoring the conference scheduled for October 28-29 at Duke University. However...
This memorandum dated August 29, 1972, from Dr. Blackburn, Chancellor of Duke University, summarizes "recent discussions of the tuition, loan and other financial aspects of the Physician's Associate Program and to implement the necessary budget and...
This letter from Dr. William Anlyan, Dean, School of Medicine, Duke University, dated February 1, 1966 requests eleven individuals to serve on an ad hoc committee to "explore the possible types of models of physicians' assistants who may be trained at...
This June 22, 1972 letter from Dr. Howard to Dr. John Blackburn, Chancellor of Duke University, provides information about the current status of the PA Program including a long range funding plan (attachment I). "The establishment of a revolving fund...
News Report contained in a 1970 edition of Clinical Insights in Medicine listing "thirteen programs now operation - nine specialist and four generalist [programs]". A one line description with title used by graduate is provided for each program.
Letters written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1970 answering a variety of questions about the physician's assistant concept. The letters are as follows:(1) Stead to Duffy dated April 23, 1970 commenting on a draft bill for licensure of physician's...
Letters written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 answering a variety of questions about the physician's assistant concept. The letters are as follows:(1) Stead reply to Zahn dated January 31, 1969 indicating that he feels "the ceiling placed on...
Letter from Stephen Joyner, AAPA Board of Directors, to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA program, thanking him for considering financial support for him and Dick Scheele [correct spelling Scheele] to attend and display at the North...
Letter from D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA program to Stephen L. Joyner, AAPA Board of Directors, regarding providing financial support for him and Dick Scheele to attend and display at the North Carolina Medical Society Annual...
A series of letters between D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University Physician Assistant program, and Dick Moores, cartoonist of the Gasoline Alley comic strip between September 1971 and April 1972 discussing Chipper, an ex-military corpsmen,...
Cartoon drawing by Dick Moores showing Chipper Wallet discussing the PA program with Doc that appeared on front page of Intercom, the employee newsletter for Duke University Medical Center. An accompanying article indicates that the PA segment of the...
Three articles about PA Educational Programs appeared in this 1972 issue of The Advisor, a newsletter published by Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. D. Robert Howard's article is titled "The Duke Physician's Associate Program: An Interim...
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 letter dated February 4, 1970 from Mrs. Ballenger to Dr. Kinney at Duke includes a second draft "of the legislative proposal" being developed by the task force assembled for this purpose. Ms. Ballenger states that "the October Conference [second...
Memorandum from Dale R. Lindsay, Associate Director of Medical and Allied Health Education, to Thomas Kinney, Dean of Medical Education, stating that he found "the long range prospects for allied health at Duke as dim unless we can resolve them soon...
News release from the American Medical Association dated September 12, 1972 announcing the approval of the first PA training programs approved by accreditation. The programs receiving approval were: Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, WV; Bowman-Gray...
These are proposed guidelines for the educational essentials for the physician's assistants prepared by a task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants and the...
Correspondence from Gregory Gilreath, President of the American College of Physicians Assistants to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University Physician Assistant Program, describing the activities of the College to align itself with the...
Memorandum from D. Robert Howard, director, to David E. Lewis, associate director of the Duke University PA Program providing information about the newly established Insurance Rating Board Code 9711 allowing PAs and surgeon assistants to purchase...
NC state code sheet classifying physician or surgeon assistants as class 8, code 9711 of the Insurance Rating Board. Insurance carriers used this code to provide liability insurance coverage to physician assistants or their employing physicians or...
This one page article with photo of Duke University physician's assistants in training appeared in the US News & World Report on September 8, 1969. The article begins "You may one day find your doctor less harried, able to give you more time. This...
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...
Dr. Howard's letter to Dr. Stead on January 26, 1971 providing "data regarding the salaries and location of graduates, and also the offered starting salaries and distribution of the job offerings we have on hand." The salaries reported for 42 graduates...
This document summarizes two compromise proposals submitted by Dr. Estes to Dr. Kinney re the BHS degree. The proposals are: (1) only admit qualified candidates, or (2) admit both qualified and non-qualified candidates for the BHS degree. Dr. William...
This is a revised draft copy of manuscript describing the Rougemont and Bragtown community health care projects developed by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University Medical Center. The objectives and plan are outlined including use...
This memorandum has an attachment that outlines the organizational structure of the Bragtown/Rougemont community health projects. The responsibilities of the physician's assistants are provided. Joyce Nichols and Prentiss Harrison, African-American PA...
This letter from Dr. Harvey Estes to Dr. Anlyan and other administrators at Duke classifies PAs into two groups: I & II based upon experience. The salary range is projected at $6,843 to $7,883 per annum for newly graduated PAs and at $7,675 to...
Report of task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants and the need for standards for programs producing them." The report describes the need, the...
This study guide accompanied film produced by the Veterans Administration Medical Media Network at Duke University in 1970-71 titled "Status Report: The Physician's Assistant." The study guide contains pre and post tests, a description of points of...
The American Medical Association placed this advertisement entitled "We want to place this man in the hospital" in Life Magazine and newspapers to recruit former military medics (military corpsmen) into the physician assistant profession to help with...
Program for the Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held April 20-21, 1972 at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC. Agenda includes topics on legislation and legal issues, economic and sociologic studies, educational essentials for...
Original guidelines or standards for accreditation of physician assistant education programs adopted by the AMA House of Delegates in December 1971. Sponsoring organizations included the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of...
Bob Howard's letter to Jerry Bredouw congratulating him on "the very fine job you did with the recent episode of 'The Bold Ones' that gave the physician's assistant concept some much-needed publicity." Also, he mentions his gratitude for "getting us in...
A typed copy of NC General Assembly House Bill 890 and Senate Bill 554 entitled An Act to Make an Exception to the Medical Practice Act Relative to Assistants to Physicians that was enacted July 12, 1971. The act was a direct outcome of draft model...
Drawing accompanying letter and application sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DC requesting registration of the mark "Registered Physicians' Associate" and the appropriate insignia. (Fee was $35)
Application accompanying letter and drawing sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DC requesting registration of the mark "Registered Physicians' Associate" and the appropriate insignia. (Fee was $35)
Correspondence between Gregory Gilreath, President of the American College of Physicians Assistants (formerly known as the Midwest Association of Physician Assistants) explaining the purpose and aims of the College, meetings with the AMA, growth of...
Letter written by Dr. D. Robert Howard, Director of Duke University Physician Assistant program, to Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, CBS reporters on 60 Minutes requesting a visit by 60 Minutes to explore educating ex-military corpsmen to address...
Minutes from the American Registry of Physicians' Associates Board of Directors' meeting held on September 15, 1972 at the Hilton Inn (airport), Atlanta, GA. At this meeting a formal vote was taken to "form a new umbrella association" to be known as...
The agenda for the American Registry of Physicians' Associates Board of Directors' meeting held on September 15, 1972, at the Hilton Inn (airport), Atlanta, GA. At this meeting a formal vote was taken to "form a new umbrella association" to be known as...
Dale Lindsay expresses his fears about the PA program at Duke, talking about an "approaching crisis" due to lack of funding and disorganized standards.
In response to Dr. Carl R. Trask request for information, Dr. Sessoms, director, Duke Hospital, sends a copy of a general occupational guidelines and job descriptions for physician's associates used by the Duke Hospital.
This reading list on physician's assistants was compiled and released by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Division of Library Services. in December, 1972. The list was "selected from publications generally available in most hospital and public...
This application was submitted by Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Roger Bulger on March 1, 1971 to obtain approval by the Duke Physician's Assistant Program to award the Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree. The application includes the objectives and...
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 memorandum was sent July 31, 1970 to members of the Duke PA Program Advisory Council by Dr. Howard, proposing a tentative agenda for the September meeting. The issues or topics to be discussed included a report on the legal study and proposed...
An announcement issued by the United States Civil Service Commission, Bureau of Recruiting and Examining, in March 1971 providing information on availability of Physician's Assistant jobs within the Federal Government. The announcement states that...
Paper presented on June 17, 1972 by John R. Ball, MD, JD, director of legal affairs, Duke University Physician's Associate Program, at the American Medical Association Symposium on Distribution of Health Manpower, San Francisco. The paper discusses the...
Correspondence from Martha Ballenger, legal assistant attached to Duke University PA Program, asking Mr. Lippe for list of insurance companies that are members of the Board so that she could contact them regarding demand for PA liability coverage, rate...
Summary report of a survey of insurance liability carriers to determine guidelines that they had established for providing coverage for PAs and their employing physicians or institutions. A brief history of attempts to gain liability is provided. Of...
A report (white paper) that contrast the education and utilization of Physician Associates (Duke Educational Model) and Medex (University of Washington Educational Model). Contains a list of Medex and PA Programs and list of Duke PA graduates and...
A letter and attached agreement dated November 4, 1969 indicates that the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan will provide a grant to Duke University of $50,000 per year to be renewed on a yearly basis at the discretion of Upjohn and review of the...
These are the proceedings of a two-day conference [Second Duke Conference] held on October 26, 1969. Held at the Hilton Inn in Durham, the conference focused upon the legal status of physician's assistants. At the outset of the conference, five...
This article from the July 1972 issue of Dallas Medical Journal reports study conducted by School of Allied Health Professions of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, to determine if physicians in 21 counties of north-central...
In his memorandum sent to Drs. Howard and Bulger at Duke University, Mr. Keller sets forth parameters for the Tuition Loan program for the Duke University PA program. According to the letter, "the plan will generate sufficient cash to support the...
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...
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...
A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, describing his philosophy about the undergraduate and graduate education of physicians and their newest team...
Memorandum from Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. dated September 8, 1967 to Dr. William Anlyan (Vice President of Duke University for Medical Affairs) stating that "effective this date, Dr. E. Harvey Estes is assuming responsibility (which, up to now, has been...
Summary minutes of a crucial meeting between representatives of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Physicians' Associates at the AMA building in Chicago, IL, August 29, 1972. Mr. T. R. Godkins (AAPA President), Dr. Alfred...
Unapproved minutes of the American Academy of Physician's Associates' Board of Directors meeting held November 11, 1972 at George Washington University, Washington, DC. Items discussed included: (1) the Academy and Association jointly approaching the...
Cover of the first issue (Vol.1, no. 1) of the official journal of the American Association of Physicians' Assistants published quarterly by Charles B. Slack, Inc., Thorofare, NJ. The aim of the Journal was to "foster good will and unity of purpose...
Article from the American Medical Association information bulletin January 1972, describing the development of accreditation essentials for different types of physician assistants being trained at different levels of responsibility across a wide range...
Approved by the American Hospital Association on November 17-19, 1971, this 2 page document states that there should be only one organized medical stall in a hospital, governed by a single set of bylaws. "Health professionals involved in medical...
This January 22, 1971 issue of Intercom, Duke University Medical Center, contains an article titled "Duke to Offer Bachelor's Degree in Several Health Sciences Fields. The article describes the need for professionally trained health care workers and...
This 1966 description of the Duke PA Program was distributed to potential applicants to explain the concept, pre-requisites, curriculum and policies of the program. No salary range could be offered since no one had graduated from the program at that...
Series of correspondence began by Dr. Walter Bornemeier, President of the AMA, on November 17, 1970 thanking Dr. Stead for opportunity to attend Duke's Third National Conference on PAs and noting Dr. Stead's discontent with AMA's slow progress in...