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...
Report released by the AMA's Council on Health Manpower to update State Medical Societies and State Medical Licensing Authorities on progress "in developing a national program of certification, based on proficiency testing, for the assistant to the...
A 1971 progress report written by Dr. Malcolm Todd, Chairman of the AMA's Council on Health Manpower to "report the progress that has been made by our Council on Health Manpower in working closely with medical specialty societies in the development and...
This article written in 1971 by J. Kadish of the AMA and JW Long of the NIH was intended to update physicians about the PA movement. The authors provide a history of use of non-physician personnel to deliver health care services (feldshers, assistant...
Nick Griffin, Secretary of the AMA Council on Health Manpower sent this memorandum dated February 22, 1974 to "participants in November 28 meeting" containing a proposed budget for the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants. The...