Barnes Woodhall examining x-ray, nurses in background. Woodhall was the chief of Duke University Medical Center's Division of Neurosurgery from 1937 to 1960. He became the second dean of the School of Medicine, serving from 1960 to 1964. Woodhall...
Barnes Woodhall was the chief of Duke University Medical Center Division of Neurosurgery from 1937 to 1960. He became the second dean of the School of Medicine, serving from 1960 to 1964. Barnes Woodhall received his medical degree from the John...
This is a memorandum dated July 26, 1974 with an attached ballot sent by Donald Fisher to member programs of the APAP to vote in favor or not in favor of incorporating the Association of Physicians' Assistant Programs. Incorporation would not...
Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support...
Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support...
Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Poston, a member of the original faculty, was an instructor in bacteriology from 1930 to 1960. Whildin (M.D., Duke, 1937) was a member...
School of Medicine and Duke Hospital staff at a dinner party. Dean of the School of Medicine Wilburt Cornell Davison is seated at the near end of the table, facing the camera. Callaway married Catharine Dater Van Blarcom, an instructor of nursing...
Letter from Frederic N. Cleaveland, Provost, to Thomas D. Kinney, Director of Medical and Allied Health Education, at Duke University granting "my formal approval of the proposed special program for the Physician's Associate and to authorize you...
This January 22, 1971 issue of Intercom, Duke University Medical Center, contains an article titled "Duke to Offer Bachelor's Degree in Several Health Sciences Fields. The article describes the need for professionally trained health care workers...
Page 2 and 3 of the Medical School Advisory Committee' minutes for November 9, 1971 indicates approval of the Physician's Assistant program's request to become a degree program. Dr. Kinney made the motion as recommended to him by the Allied Health...
This letter dated December 13, 1971 from Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University summarizes steps taken from September 1969 to December 12, 1970 to gain approval of the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. Committees...
This memorandum from Dr. E. Harvey Estes to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University dated September 29, 1969 request that the physician's assistant curriculum be upgraded to the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. Dr. Estes provides the rationale and...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Association of Physician Assistant Programs membership list containing the names of 26 educational programs and representative that was mailed prior to the November 1973 meeting held in conjunction with the AAMC in Washington, DC.
Preliminary program providing information and registration card for the Association of American Medical Colleges 85th Annual Meeting to be held November 11-16 at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL. The program lists the Association of Physician...
Articles of incorporation of the American Registry of Physicians' Associates, signed by Robinson O. Everett, Martha D. Ballenger and D. Robert Howard on May 26, 1970. The initial Board of Directors included Robert Ewer, MD, University of Texas,...
Ardie L. Kelly, assistant curator of the Trent Collection, at his desk in the Trent Room, Duke University Hospital Library. Photographed by Richard McKee. View 1.
Ardie L. Kelly, assistant curator of the Trent Collection, at his desk in the Trent Room, Duke University Hospital Library. Photographed by Richard McKee. View 2.
Application accompanying letter and drawing sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DC requesting registration of the mark "Registered Physicians' Associate" and the appropriate insignia. (Fee was $35)
A draft proposal included in March 29, 1974 minutes of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs (appendix II) requesting Federal funds to evaluate the validity of the prediction equations developed by the Bowman Gray School of Medicine and...
This APAP newsletter dated March 1975 contains a special tribute to the APAP Board of Directors currently holding office, mentions the opening of a new office for the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistant in Atlanta, GA,...
News release with attached preliminary agenda for the upcoming semiannual meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs to be held in conjunction with the Association of American Medical Colleges in Chicago, IL in November, 1974. This...
This newsletter date August 8, 1975 contains news about: (1) Air Force PAs being stationed overseas, (2) date of NBME 1975 Certifying Examination - November 19-21, 1975; (3) awarding of $375 million awarded to US DHEW - some to go toward education...
Pamphlet inviting individuals to the "11th Annual Seminar: Physician's Assistants" sponsored by the Veterans Administration Hospital and the Greater Cincinnati Hospital Council, Cincinnati, OH, to be held on May 20, 1971. The seminar topic was...
Ann Gunn poses in front of the door to Operation Room 10. She was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked...
Ann Gunn was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on the general surgical unit from 1965-1969. In 1969...
Ann Henshaw Gardiner was the first full-time faculty member of the Duke University School of Nursing. She served from 1931 until 1941. (From the scrapbook of Marie McAdams Parrish, circa 1978.)