Memorandum from D. Robert Howard, director, to David E. Lewis, associate director of the Duke University PA Program providing information about the newly established Insurance Rating Board Code 9711 allowing PAs and surgeon assistants to purchase...
Article written by Dr. D. Robert Howard, MD that appeared in Times Educational Supplement, March 11, 1970. The supplement appeared in three US Military "Times" newspapers to introduce veterans, especially corpsmen, to the PA education program at Duke...
Correspondence from Bob Jones, associate editor of Army Times Publishing Company, to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA Program, indicating that Dr. Howard's article, "Doctors' assistants on rise" was published in an educational...
This memorandum has an attachment that outlines the organizational structure of the Bragtown/Rougemont community health projects. The responsibilities of the physician's assistants are provided. Joyce Nichols and Prentiss Harrison, African-American PA...
Attached to this letter is a proposal which outlines the requirements for the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree that would be awarded to candidates participating in the PA program.
These are proposed guidelines for the educational essentials for the physician's assistants prepared by a task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants and the...
This letter was written by Thomas Godkins, president of the American Academy of Physicians' Associates, on October 3, 1972 to Gregory Gilreath, president of the American College of Physicians' Assistants. The purpose of the letter was to find time for...
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...
Report of task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants and the need for standards for programs producing them." The report describes the need, the...
Minutes of the second meeting of the Task Force on Physician's Assistant Programs of the AMA and AAMC Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) that met at the Regency Hyatt House Hotel, Chicago, IL on April 28, 1971. The committee adopted...
This report was prepared by the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, DHEW to send to Congress in June 1971. The 1970 Public Health Service Act (Sec. 799A) required the Secretary to submit a report "identifying the major...
This is a 1971 legislative report prepared by the Legislative Research Commission for the NC General Assembly covering a variety of health care topics. The first two topic (reports) related to physician's assistants: (1) Health Manpower Needs in North...
This request for board of advisors membership was sent out to Don E. Detmer, A. William Horsley, Malcolm Peterson, Thomas E. Piemme, and Richard G. Rosen
In his February 9, 1972 letter, Carl R. Trask, director, Saint John General Hospital, Saint John, N.B. Candada, ask Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, director, Duke Hospital, Durham, NC for a job description for physicians assistants and a copy of suggested bylaw...
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".
Summary report of a survey of insurance liability carriers to determine guidelines that they had established for providing coverage for PAs and their employing physicians or institutions. A brief history of attempts to gain liability is provided. Of...
Resume of the proceedings of a meeting held in Durham, NC on Sunday, March 1, 1970 as an intermediate step in a project sponsored by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to develop a legislative proposal under which physician's assistants...
Donald Wasson, Assistant Administrator of Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan, IL writes this letter to David W. Stickney, Associate Director of the Illinois Hospital Association in November 3, 1972 to inform him that "our medical staff and Board of...
In this letter David E. Lewis, the Associate Director of the Duke PA program, describes the AMA's visit that had taken place the previous week. The schedule of their activities is attached.
Letter from Stephen Joyner, AAPA Board of Directors, to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA Program, thanking him for financial support to attend and display at the NC Medical Society Annual Meeting in Pinehurst, NC in May 1970. "I am...
Secretary's Newsletter written by William Stanhope and distributed to members of the American Academy of Physician's Associates. This appears to be one of many similar newsletters written by Mr. Stanhope during his tenure as secretary of the AAPA in...
A report (white paper) that contrast the education and utilization of Physician Associates (Duke Educational Model) and Medex (University of Washington Educational Model). Contains a list of Medex and PA Programs and list of Duke PA graduates and...
Richard Rosen, as a new member of the AAPA's board of advisors, casts his vote on the acceptance of Medex personnel into the American Academy of Physicians Assistants.
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 of...
This letter dated April 9, 1968 from Frank Goldsmith, Assistant Director for Special Staff Services, Office of Program Planning and Evaluation, Bureau of Health Services, DHEW, to Dr. William J. DeMaria at Duke University Medical Center, announces the...
Summary minutes of a crucial meeting between representatives of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Physicians' Associates at the AMA building in Chicago, IL, August 29, 1972. Mr. T. R. Godkins (AAPA President), Dr. Alfred...
These summary notes compiled by Thomas R. Godkins and William D. Stanhope, president and secretary of the American Academy of Physicians' Associates, respectively, describe a meeting held with Mr. Gregroy Gilreath, president of the American College of...
At this meeting between the AMA and the AAPA at the American Medical Association building in Chicago, Godkins and Stanhope introduce the Academy to the AMA in hopes that it will cultivate future meetings between the two organizations that would...
Report containing results of a survey conducted in March 1972 to graduates of the Duke University Physician's Associate program to "ascertain the extent of professional liability insurance coverage carried by them." Twenty-seven individuals responded....
This memorandum dated July 30, 1970 was sent to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University by Dr. Walter Rice, Acting Secretary, Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requesting Kinney "to serve on the newly created Task Force on Physician's...
This article from the July 1972 issue of Dallas Medical Journal reports study conducted by School of Allied Health Professions of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, to determine if physicians in 21 counties of north-central...
This memorandum was sent July 31, 1970 to members of the Duke PA Program Advisory Council by Dr. Howard, proposing a tentative agenda for the September meeting. The issues or topics to be discussed included a report on the legal study and proposed...
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 Interim...
This brochure published by the American Academy of Physicians' Associates in 1972 provides information about the history, goals and mission of the Academy while it was still based in North Carolina. The reason for the name change from "assistant" to...
Drawing accompanying letter and application sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DC requesting registration of the mark "Registered Physicians' Associate" and the appropriate insignia. (Fee was $35)
The by-laws of the American Registry of Physician's Associates, incorporated in North Carolina in May 1970. The purpose of the Registry was to encourage the training, promotion and regulation of the activities of physicians' associates, to determine...
Association of Physician Assistant Programs membership list as of September 22, 1972. The list contains the names of 15 educational programs and was distributed with the minutes of the first meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs.
A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, outlining a plan to combine private and public sector funds to provide upper career mobility for...
This certificate dated 2 September 1970 was issued to Charles C. Lewis in recognition of his becoming a charter member of the "Stead Society" at Duke University Medical Center. The PA student organization was founded in 1972. Gary G. Phelps was the...
This article by Louis Rousselot, MD, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Environment, appeared in the December 1971 issue of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. The article describes the need for physician's assistants,...
Program for the Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants, held April 20-21, 1972 at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC. Agenda includes topics on legislation and legal issues, economic and sociologic studies, educational essentials for...
Announcement for the Fourth Annual Duke Physician's Assistant Conference, held April 20-21, 1972, at the Durham Hotel, Durham, NC. Agenda included topics on legislation and legal issues; economic and sociologic studies; educational essentials for...
Paper drafted by Dr. D. Robert Howard at Duke University in 1972 providing background and reasons for changing the title of certain PA programs and graduates from "assistant" to "associate." He mentions the classification of PAs by education and scope...
This one page abstract describes plans to train a pediatric assistant at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC, in 1968. The training would include 2 years of college and 2 years in the special program including 1 year of technical...
This draft paper was authored by Dr. William DeMaria, Assistant Dean, Duke University Medical School. Dr. DeMaria chaired a Subcommittee on the Physician and His Associates in Health for the Bureau of Health Services, DHEW in 1968. Since the paper...
This article appeared in the March 26, 1972 Sunday issue of the Boston Herald Traveler (Sunday herald traveler). The supplement is titled "Your Physician and You: Medical Care in Massachusetts" and was prepared by the Boston Herald Traveler and the...
This report provides results on a task analysis conducted in 1971 to determine the frequency and independence of tasks performed by eleven graduates of the Duke University PA Program. The results of the analysis "implied that PAs working in private...
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 development and...
The Washington Hospital Center proposed to expand its cardiovascular technician program into a physician's assistant program and sent a proposal for funding to the Metropolitan Washington Regional Medical Program. The proposal raised many questions...