In his May 28, 1968 letter, Dr. Theodore Scurletis, North Carolina State Board of Health, asked Dr. Jay Arena, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University, to review a paper that he has drafted to present on June 6. Dr. Arena responds "Your comments are...
Dr. Davison, former Dean of the Duke University Medical School, sent E. Harvey Estes, Jr. this letter in 1968 with a clipping from Newsweek Magazine about an individual who had masqueraded as a physician in small town in Texas. When asked many of the...
Summary report of a conference held at Duke University on March 31 and April 1, 1968 to discuss ethical and legal implications of introducing new health practitioners, using physician assistants as an example, into the American health care delivery...
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...
Photograph showing a control panel for a hyperbaric unit. A man is seated at the instrument panel in front of the unit. Photographs of five medical staff are included around the edges of the photograph. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University...
In this July 1968 memorandum to chapter chairs, James B. Gillespie, Secretary for Chapters, American Academy of Pediatrics, discusses Dr. John Connelly's program in Boston to train nurses in the child health field. He mentions the development of...
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.
Eleanor Flanagan Branch in classroom. Given in a scrapbook to Helen Kaiser in 1968. Branch was an alumni class of 1951 and a physical therapy faculty member for 40 years.
This is a series of letters written by Dr. Davison, former Dean of the Duke University Medical School, discussing the legal and professional liability issues involved in using medical students as externs. Dr. Davison has employed medical students...
This series of correspondence occurred between March 26 and May 28, 1968. The exchange of letters is to arrange a meeting between public health leaders at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Duke University with Dr. Loretta Ford...
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: Richard...
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...