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A Medical Center Degree-- An Honest Approach to a Problem Usually Handled by Subterfuge

Description:	A discussion paper distributed by Eugene A. Stead, Jr. to the Medical School Advisory Council (MedSAC) at Duke University on April 10, 1972 providing background information about the physician's assistant program and requesting that the Medical...
Date Submitted:	April 10, 1972

Bachelor of Health Sciences Degree [Duke University Medical Center] - Correspondence: Anlyan to Powell

Description:	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...
Date Submitted:	September 1, 1970

Purser-Marine Physician Assistant : Staff Officers' Association of America training program

Description:	A bulletin describing the newly established Purser-Marine Physician Assistant Program based in the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, New York. The bulletin contains the logo of the program and pictures of students in training and...
Date Submitted:	1970

The Advisor, Vol. 8, No.1, February 1972 [Articles by D. Robert Howard, Richard A. Henry and Hu C. Myers]

Description:	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...
Date Submitted:	February, 1972

Study Guide to Accompany the Program of: 'Status Report: The Physician's Assistant'

Description:	This study guide accompanied film produced by the Veterans Administration Medical Media Network at Duke University in 1970-71 titled "Status Report: The Physician's Assistant." The study guide contains pre and post tests, a description of points...
Date Submitted:	1971

Essentials of an approved educational program for the assistant to the primary care physician, December 1971

Description:	Original guidelines or standards for accreditation of physician assistant education programs adopted by the AMA House of Delegates in December 1971. Sponsoring organizations included the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of...
Date Submitted:	December 1, 1971

HEW News [Release] August 1972

Description:	Department of Health, Education and Welfare announces awarding $4 million in contracts in Fiscal 1972 to 25 institutions training PAs for primary care. A list of institutions and amounts awarded is provided. This is first time these type programs...
Date Submitted:	August 10, 1972

Medical education and practice

Description:	A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, describing his philosophy about the undergraduate and graduate education of physicians and their newest...
Date Submitted:	November, 1969

Current status of the "physician's assistant"

Description:	Article from the American Medical Association information bulletin January 1972, describing the development of accreditation essentials for different types of physician assistants being trained at different levels of responsibility across a wide...
Date Submitted:	January, 1972

First three physician's assistants complete program at Duke University

Description:	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:...
Date Submitted:	June, 1968