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  • AMA Council on Health Manpower Answers to Specific Questions on Utilization of "Physician's Assistants"

    Description: 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...
    Date Submitted: July 14, 1971

  • Certification of the assistant to the primary care physician: a status report

    Description: Report released by the AMA's Council on Health Manpower to update State Medical Societies and State Medical Licensing Authorities on progress "in developing a national program of certification, based on proficiency testing, for the assistant to...
    Date Submitted: November 16, 1972

  • The Physician's Assistant - a progress report

    Description: 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...
    Date Submitted: 1971

  • The training of physician assistants: status and issues

    Description: 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,...
    Date Submitted: May 11, 1971