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 need...
This May 15, 1967 issue of Medical Economics contains an editorial followed by three articles on the topic of using nondoctors to do doctors work. The editorial written, by Senior Editor Paul W. Kellam, begins "They're thinking big in Washington right...
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 met on...
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 1971 informational pamphlet was placed in the Bragtown satellite clinic explaining the role of Mr. Prentiss Harrison, a Duke PA graduate, and community health workers in improving access to health care in the community. "The community health...
In his May 28, 1968 letter, Dr. Theodore Scurletis, North Carolina State Board of Health, asked Dr. Jay Arena, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University, to review a paper that he has drafted to present on June 6. Dr. Arena responds "Your comments are...
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 that he...
This news release titled "Job Description for MD Assistants" appeared in the July 5, 1972 issue of Drug Research Reports. The article states that the job description "was spelled out in proposed regs published in the Federal Register June 29 as part of...
Correspondence sent by John McQueary, President of the American Academy of Physicians' Associates, to D. Robert Howard, MD, a Board Advisor, calling for meeting of the Board of Advisors during the upcoming Fourth [Duke] Annual Conference on Physician's...
Report from Committee on Relations with Other Organizations of the American Academy of Physicians' Associates describing a meeting held between John Braun and representatives of the National Association of Physician's Assistants on January 24, 1972....