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  • Physician's assistant : aide to harassed doctors

    Description:
    Early article appearing in Roche Medical Image [magazine] describing role of physician assistant. The article features Craig Bruno a graduate of the Duke University PA program who is the first PA hired on a one-year trial basis at a community...
    Date:
    August 1, 1968

  • P.A. - an instant institution

    Description:
    Article publicizes the use of physician's assistants to address America's shortage of skilled health personnel based upon a meeting held in Durham, NC on Friday 13th, November, 1970 [i.e., the Third Duke Conference]. The article highlights...
    Date:
    December 1, 1970

  • Early Duke PA graduate Craig Bruno, performing pre-employment physical, 1968

    Description:
    Photograph from Roche Medical Image magazine, August, 1968 depicting Mr. Craig Bruno, physician assistant, completing a pre-employment physical for pulp mill worker in Plymouth, NC. Mr. Bruno is drawing blood from patient's arm.
    Date:
    August 1, 1968

  • National Board of Medical Examiners News Release

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    August 6, 1972

  • First training programs for physician's assistants approved

    Description:
    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;...
    Date:
    September 12, 1972

  • Duke's physician's assistant program: a new source of medical manpower

    Description:
    Early article with photographs of Duke University Physician's Assistant students in training that appeared in 1970 issue of Blue Cross News, published by North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Inc. The article begins "Working with physicians...
    Date:
    1970

  • Physician's assistant: new help for the sick

    Description:
    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....
    Date:
    September 8, 1969

  • Ever hear of a physician's assistant? Chances are you'll meet one soon.

    Description:
    This news release was prepared by Joe Sigler, Medical Public Relation Director, Duke University for distribution to newspapers on December 21, 1969. The article describes the rapid growth of the PA Program at Duke and the growing interest in the...
    Date:
    December 21, 1969