Announcement mailed to potential attendees providing a tentative schedule of events to be held during the Second National Conference on New Health Practitioners at the Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, LA on March 27-30, 1974. The return registration...
Program provided to individuals attending the Second National Conference on New Health Practitioners at the Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, LA on March 27-30, 1974. The Council of Medex Programs Semiannual Meeting was conducted prior to the...
Minutes of the March 29, 1974 annual meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs. Dr. Thomas Piemme was president and recounted progress that the Association had made in past year to: (1) open new office in Washington, DC with...
Copy of revised Essentials of an Approved Educational Program for the Surgeon's Assistant changing qualifications for candidates for training from a high school graduate to person having completed two years of college or the equivalent. The...
Announcement of the First National Conference on New Health Practitioners held at the USAF School of Health Care Sciences, Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, TX, April 10-12, 1973. Advanced registration form attached to the announcement....
This memorandum was sent by Dale Lindsay, Dean of Allied Health Education, to Frederic Cleaveland, Provost, Duke University and Thomas D. Kinney, informing him that earlier data on how many Blacks had applied to the PA program was overstated. Dr....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about admissions into the Duke PA program. The pamphlet provides a brief overview of the program,...
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about the physician's associate concept. The pamphlet provides background information and describes...
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...
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...
This proposal was developed by Dr. D. Robert Howard as way for the Duke PA program to become financially self-dependent after receiving five years of Federal funding and meet the immediate needs of PA students for educational loans. "It is...
In his letter dated January 26, 1971 to Dr. Louis deS. Shaffner, President of the NC Medical Society, Dr. Bob Howard explains why an ex-chiropractor has been enrolled in the PA Program at Duke as an "experiment." He writes that "We realized at the...
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...
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...
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...
Article that appeared in the New Physician June 1968: A-18-A-19, describing the first three graduates of the Duke University Physician's Assistant Program. The article describes the curriculum and the backgrounds of the first three graduates:...
This packet of materials provides an overview of the PA curriculum that was in place in 1968 at Duke University. The curriculum was developed under the "guidance of an Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the Vice Provost." The twenty-four month...
This is the report of an ad hoc committee appointed by Dr. Barnes Woodhall, Vice Provost, Duke University to evaluate "programs within the Medical Center designed to bring new types of personnel into the health field." The committee concentrates...
(Signs from left to right) Skeletal fraction femur; Skeletal traction humerus; Fracture of surgical neck of the humerus with rubber muscle; Hall fracture bed; Russell method of balanced traction for fracture of femur.
(Left) Conwell-Herzmark Hypertension frame. (Right) Skeleton with Roger Anderson splint and Hoke traction for arm. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital.
Kinney graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He served as chair of the Department of Pathology from 1960 to 1975 and associate provost of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1974. His administrative activities included...
Dr. James H. Carter Sr. was the first African-American full professor of psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He came to Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years.
Dr. James H. Carter Sr. was the first African-American full professor of psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He came to Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years.
Louis Sullivan, James Carter, and William Kennedy have a conversation during a reception held at the Duke President’s house. Dr. Lou Sullivan was Secretary of Health & Human Services during the H.W. Bush administration. Dr. James Carter was a...
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.
Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an...
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.