Minutes of the American Academy of Physicians' Associates Regular Meeting held at the Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY on February 3, 1973. Three votes were taken: (1) to amend bylaws to make membership less restrictive, (2) to change name...
This newsletter includes minutes of the Academy's Board of Directors' meeting held March 27, 1974 at the Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, LA, a summary of the Second Annual Conference with list of officers and committee chairs, and a list of...
Newsletter issued in February 1974 announcing the hiring of Donald Fisher, Ph.D., as the Executive Director of the Academy and Association and planned opening of a joint national office in May 1974. In order for the Academy to receive foundation...
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...
An African-American worker opens the rear end of the ambulance. A guard stands in the emergency room doorway. The original emergency room unloading platform could only accommodate one ambulance.
This AMA feature appeared in the September 14, 1970 issue of JAMA and summarizes a recent speech made by Walter C. Bornemeier, MD, president of the AMA, stating importance of "establishing training facilities now for medical [physician's]...
This document released in July 1969 describes action taken by the American Medical Association House of Delegates on medical staff membership of allied health professionals in hospitals. The adopted statement was to be disseminated to "all...
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...
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...
A memorandum sent to Duke Administrators from Dr. Robert Howard dated August 17, 1971 updating them on progress made by the AMA to develop Educational Essentials for the assistant to the primary care physician. Dr. Howard refers readers to the...