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National Board of Medical Examiners News Release

Description/Abstract:	News release by the National Board of Medical Examiners on August 6, 1972 announcing need to "determine the best way of developing nationally valid certifying examinations that will ensure the orderly development of the concept of the assistant to...
Date:	August 6, 1972

The physician's assistant: new programs for training new health team members

Description/Abstract:	News Report contained in a 1970 edition of Clinical Insights in Medicine listing "thirteen programs now operation - nine specialist and four generalist [programs]". A one line description with title used by graduate is provided for each program.
Date:	1970

First training programs for physician's assistants approved

Description/Abstract:	News release from the American Medical Association dated September 12, 1972 announcing the approval of the first PA training programs approved by accreditation. The programs receiving approval were: Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, WV;...
Date:	September 12, 1972

AMA advertisement supporting physician assistant education for veterans

Description/Abstract:	The American Medical Association placed this advertisement entitled "We want to place this man in the hospital" in Life Magazine and newspapers to recruit former military medics (military corpsmen) into the physician assistant profession to help...
Date:	July 30, 1970

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

Description/Abstract:	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:	December 1, 1971

Goals and Priorities Committee Report, American Academy of Physicians' Assistants

Description/Abstract:	Report of the AAPA's Goals and Priorities Committee released November 1973. The strengths and weaknesses of the AMA's September 1973 proposal to establish a National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants are discussed and listed...
Date:	November, 1973

Summary minutes : meeting to discuss National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants [November 28, 1973]

Description/Abstract:	Summary minutes of meeting held on November 28, 1973, in Chicago, IL. Representatives of national health care professional organizations met to discuss the formation of a national commission to oversee the certification of physician's assistants....
Date:	November 28, 1973

Essentials of an Approved Educational Program for the Assistant to the Primary Care Physician, Revised 1978

Description/Abstract:	These essentials for accreditation of physician assistant education programs were revised and adopted in 1978 by the AMA House of Delegates. Sponsoring organizations had grown from four in 1971 to eight organizations in 1978. The American Academy...
Date:	1978

American Medical Association Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs - Correspondence: Detmer to Gilreath and Godkins

Description/Abstract:	This letter from Detmer and the AMA indicates the AMA's interest in soliciting as a full collaborating member "a physician's assistant organization that is broadly representative of assistants to primary care physicians". Detmer also notes that...
Date:	January 23, 1973

American Medical Association, Report of the Board of Trustees - Correspondence: Glasson to Estes

Description/Abstract:	Correspondence from John Glasson, MD, North Carolina Medical Society, to E. Harvey Estes, Jr., MD, Chair of the Department of Community Health Services, Duke University Medical Center, indicating that report to Board of Trustees had been filed...
Date:	January 4, 1973