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Memorandum from Godkins updating academy on current activities - Correspondence: Godkins to board of advisors

Description/Abstract:	An update on academy activities, this memo notifies the academy of upcoming meetings, and mentions the AAPA's intent to seek affiliation with groups representing "organized medicine".
Date:	December 19, 1972

Godkins turns down merger with National Association of Physicians' Assistants - Correspondence: Godkins to Lanpher

Description/Abstract:	In this letter, Godkins turns down a request made by Burt Lanpher and the National Association of Physicians' Assistants for a formal merger between the AAPA and NAPA.
Date:	July 20, 1972

Memorandum regarding a recent academy board meeting and upcoming meeting of the national commission.

Description/Abstract:	This memo concerns the ongoing issues surrounding PA certification, and declares the AAPA's stance in the matter. Also includes a synopsis of the minutes of the July 12, 1975 board of directors meeting regarding certification.
Date:	August 5, 1975

Recent Academy Board Meeting and Upcoming Meeting of the National Commission

Description/Abstract:	This 5 August 1975 memorandum from Tom Godkins, President of the AAPA, to Academy representative on the NCCPA, provides excerpts from unapproved minutes of the BOD meeting held July 12, 1975. Two main issues are addressed: (1) the development of...
Date:	August 5, 1975

Correspondence from P. Toth to Academy Members regarding guidelines for continuing medical education

Description/Abstract:	Correspondence from Paul Toth, Chairman, AAPA Continuing Education Committee, notes that at recent Academy Board of Directors' meeting held in Washington, DC, November 3 & 4, 1973, the Board voted unanimously to implement and enforce its...
Date:	January, 1974

Board of Advisors [American Academy of Physicians' Assistants]; between Godkins and Rosen

Description/Abstract:	In his 21 February 1974 letter, Thomas Godkins, chair of the AAPA Goals and Priorities Committee, asks Dr. Richard Rosen to remain on the AAPA's Board of Advisors. Godkin notes that "We have gone through a tremendous growth phase, have won many...
Date:	February 21, 1974

AAPA asks the National Commission on Certification of Physicians Assistants to allow surgeon's assistants to take the certification exam - Correspondence: Godkins to Glazer

Description/Abstract:	In this letter, Godkins explains the Academy's endorsement of the "generic" PA, and asks that surgeon's assistants also be allowed to take the PA certifying exam.
Date:	August 11, 1975

American College of Physicians Assistants response to AAPA regarding the academy merger proposal - Correspondence: Gilreath and Snell to AAPA board of directors

Description/Abstract:	In this letter Gregory Gilreath addresses the AAPA personally, expressing his surprise at the AAPA's "attitude of superiority" and chiding them for their "dictatorial organizational posture".
Date:	March 19, 1973

PA certification, generic and surgical - Correspondence: Godkins to Zintel

Description/Abstract:	Godkins reinforces the Academy's support for "true generic accreditation and certification", but is also "not quite happy with the way things have moved in the area of certifying physician's assistants in surgery".
Date:	August 11, 1975

Summary of Academy's actions in 1975 and resolutions of their January 23-24, 1976 meeting - Correspondence: Godkins to Riddick.

Description/Abstract:	Summary of Academy's actions in 1975 and resolutions of their January 23-24, 1976 meeting. Among the most current resolutions passed are the support for continuing education for membership and further accreditation for medical education programs....
Date:	February 2, 1976