Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
Vera Davis stands in the Central Supply workroom. Central Processing, also known as Central Supply, was a division of the Pharmacy Department. They distributed new and sterilized reusable equipment to laboratories, clinics, and wards throughout the...
Valerie Walker, an employee with the environmental services department, poses in front of flowers for sale at the Duke Hospital’s Pink Smock Gift Shop.
Pamphlet produced in 1972 by the Department of Community Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, to provide individuals information about how hospitals and physicians can use physician's associates to delivery health care services in...
Letter from Thomas Godkins, President of American Academy of Physicians' Associates to general AAPA membership updating them on matters of interest. He mentions trying to develop affiliations with the American Hospital Association, Association of...
Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
Railroad tracks were placed for steam engine trains to bring building materials, including rocks from the nearby quarry, to the site of the future Duke University School of Medicine. The partially-constructed School of Medicine as well as some workers...
Three unidientified men at a microscope. The two men in ties have been identified as students, while the third man has been identified as their instructor.
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...
The Beta Kappa chapter was probably established at Duke in 1931. (Left to right, seated) Noumeer(?), Cree, Peter, Fitzgerald. (Kneeling) Jeffreys, Adams, Frazier, Goy(?) Ricks. (Standing) Calloway, Bridges, Jones, Mahl, Joyner, Boyce. At least five...
Therlan Thompson was a veteran of the Hospital’s Central Processing department where she worked as a medical supply assembler. Central Processing, also known as Central Supply, was a division of the Pharmacy Department. They distributed new and...
In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing at...
Proceedings of a meeting held at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC in 1969 to introduce the PA concept to Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, representatives of the Bylaws Subcommittee, the hospital's legal...
Paper presented on June 17, 1972 by John R. Ball, MD, JD, director of legal affairs, Duke University Physician's Associate Program, at the American Medical Association Symposium on Distribution of Health Manpower, San Francisco. The paper discusses the...
A paper written in 1972 by Dr. D. Robert Howard at Duke University describes the role that PAs can play in remote areas if the "dependent" role of the PA to the physician is based on supervision and not on location. He argues that this mutually binding...
A letter and attached agreement dated November 4, 1969 indicates that the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan will provide a grant to Duke University of $50,000 per year to be renewed on a yearly basis at the discretion of Upjohn and review of the...
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...
These proceedings of the Third Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants held November 12 & 13, 1970, in Durham, NC contain paper (keynote) presentations, workshop presentations and panel discussions. A list of participants is provided as an...
Announcement of the third annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC on November 12 and 13, 1970. Workshops focused upon: legal, education, research and evaluation, administration and application (utilization...
Program for the Third Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants held at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC on November 12 and 13, 1970. Workshops focused on: legal, education, research and evaluation, administration and application (utilization of PAs...
In this letter to Woodhall, Stead announces that "the hyperbaric unit will begin a formal training program for environmental chamber technicians and physician-assistants".
This monograph published in 1972 by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) was written by Patrick B. Storey, MD as part of a series of studies on medicine and public health in the Soviet Union conducted in the summer of 1970. The...
Attached to this letter from W.G. Anlyan regarding Lt. Governor Hunt's view on the PA capitation program is a summary of the meeting regarding this program, and a copy of an article from the "Asheville Citizen" concerning Hunt's views on the PA.
A paper delivered by Warren Ball, Assistant Director, Dept. of Allied Medical Professions and Services, American Medical Association to the Association of Military Surgeons Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC on November 17, 1969. The author cites...
This is a position paper produced in 1974 that begins "The Association of Physician Assistant Programs (APAP) is a charitable and scientific organization composed of representatives from member programs ..." After providing a brief background for need...
News Report contained in a 1970 edition of Clinical Insights in Medicine listing "thirteen programs now operation - nine specialist and four generalist [programs]". A one line description with title used by graduate is provided for each program.
This application was submitted by Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Roger Bulger on March 1, 1971 to obtain approval by the Duke Physician's Assistant Program to award the Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree. The application includes the objectives and...
Pamphlet produced by the Public Health Service to announce employment opportunities for physician's assistants in the National Health Service Corps established in 1970. Entrance level salaries are $9,969 (GS-7) and $11,029 (GS-9). The salaries have...
The Washington Hospital Center proposed to expand its cardiovascular technician program into a physician's assistant program and sent a proposal for funding to the Metropolitan Washington Regional Medical Program. The proposal raised many questions...
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...
A working paper dated July 1, 1964 written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. describing the need for physician's assistants. He states the minimum eligibility requirements for trainees (high school or junior college and one year of health related experience)...
This report provides results on a task analysis conducted in 1971 to determine the frequency and independence of tasks performed by eleven graduates of the Duke University PA Program. The results of the analysis "implied that PAs working in private...
This article appeared in the March 26, 1972 Sunday issue of the Boston Herald Traveler (Sunday herald traveler). The supplement is titled "Your Physician and You: Medical Care in Massachusetts" and was prepared by the Boston Herald Traveler and the...
This draft paper was authored by Dr. William DeMaria, Assistant Dean, Duke University Medical School. Dr. DeMaria chaired a Subcommittee on the Physician and His Associates in Health for the Bureau of Health Services, DHEW in 1968. Since the paper...
This one page abstract describes plans to train a pediatric assistant at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC, in 1968. The training would include 2 years of college and 2 years in the special program including 1 year of technical...
Photograph of the Oxford School of Physiology. Included are Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Gowland Hopkins, Prof. H. M. Vernon, E. A. Woods, Eustace H. Chiver, “George,” Wilder Penfield, Emile Hohman, Miss Collier, C. F. Krige, Prof. Scott, and W. C....
Paper drafted by Dr. D. Robert Howard at Duke University in 1972 providing background and reasons for changing the title of certain PA programs and graduates from "assistant" to "associate." He mentions the classification of PAs by education and scope...
Pamphlet published in 1974 by the Public Health Service describing various positions available in the National Health Service Corp created by the Emergency Health Personnel Act of 1970 to place physicians and other health professionals into areas that...
Announcement for the Fourth Annual Duke Physician's Assistant Conference, held April 20-21, 1972, at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC. Agenda included topics on legislation and legal issues; economic and sociologic studies; educational essentials for...
Program for the Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held April 20-21, 1972 at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC. Agenda includes topics on legislation and legal issues, economic and sociologic studies, educational essentials for...
A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, outlining a plan to combine private and public sector funds to provide upper career mobility for...
This pamphlet was produced by the AMA's Department of Allied Health Education and Accreditation to inform educators about the organizational structure and role of the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA). In 1980, the Joint...
Association of Physician Assistant Programs membership list as of September 22, 1972. The list contains the names of 15 educational programs and was distributed with the minutes of the first meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs.
The by-laws of the American Registry of Physician's Associates, incorporated in North Carolina in May 1970. The purpose of the Registry was to encourage the training, promotion and regulation of the activities of physicians' associates, to determine...
Drawing accompanying letter and application sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DC requesting registration of the mark "Registered Physicians' Associate" and the appropriate insignia. (Fee was $35)
This brochure published by the American Academy of Physicians' Associates in 1972 provides information about the history, goals and mission of the Academy while it was still based in North Carolina. The reason for the name change from "assistant" to...
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 Interim...
Celebration commemorating the Library's tenth anniversary since its move to the Seeley G. Mudd building. Entrance lobby with Sally Wardell and Connie Culler at the circulation desk.
This memorandum was sent July 31, 1970 to members of the Duke PA Program Advisory Council by Dr. Howard, proposing a tentative agenda for the September meeting. The issues or topics to be discussed included a report on the legal study and proposed...
Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
This article from the July 1972 issue of Dallas Medical Journal reports study conducted by School of Allied Health Professions of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, to determine if physicians in 21 counties of north-central...
This memorandum dated July 30, 1970 was sent to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University by Dr. Walter Rice, Acting Secretary, Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requesting Kinney "to serve on the newly created Task Force on Physician's...
Peele graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1929 and M.D., 1934). He served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1936 and as professor of anatomy from 1939 to 1981.
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
Report containing results of a survey conducted in March 1972 to graduates of the Duke University Physician's Associate program to "ascertain the extent of professional liability insurance coverage carried by them." Twenty-seven individuals responded....
Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Surgery. Julian Deryl Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery during this time. The majority of the individuals in this photograph were on house staff between 1944 and 1950. (From left to right, Row 1)...
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.