These are minutes of an Ad Hoc Committee established by Dr. William Anlyan, Dean of the Duke University Medical School, to review and make recommendations for the Physician's Assistant Program being developed at the Medical Center. The Committee...
This letter from James (Jim) Mau to Dr. William Anlyan contains correspondence between Dr. Eugene A. Stead and Dr. John Z. Bowers, President of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. In his initial letter dated March 11, 1966 to Bowers, Stead relates...
Letter from neurosurgeon Dr. George Stevenson, dated September 7, 1966 asking Dr. Stead to respond in writing about his (Dr. Stead's) "feelings about the moral, ethical and legal utilization of these people in medical centers?" Dr. Stevenson...
In this letter dated January 11, 1966, University Counsel, E. C. Bryson, informs Charles Frenzel at Duke that "the question has been raised as to whether the administration of medications by these (PA) assistants would be in violation of the...
This is a request from William G. Anlyan to several individuals asking them to be part of an ad hoc committee "to explore the possible types of models of physicians' assistants who may be trained in this Medical Center".
This 1966 description of the Duke PA Program was distributed to potential applicants to explain the concept, pre-requisites, curriculum and policies of the program. No salary range could be offered since no one had graduated from the program at...
Series of letters between Dr. Eugene Stead and Mr. Matthew R. Kinde, director of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation during winter and spring 1966. Dr. Stead writes to Dr. Emory W. Morris on January 7, 1966 to describe the PA program and "to determine if...
This letter dated September 30, 1966 from Dr. Bowers, President of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, to Dr. William Anlyan, Dean, School of Medicine at Duke University, states that the Board of Directors of the Foundation at its September 23, 1966...
This letter from Dr. William Anlyan, Dean, School of Medicine, Duke University, dated February 1, 1966 requests eleven individuals to serve on an ad hoc committee to "explore the possible types of models of physicians' assistants who may be...