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...
This AMA feature appeared in the September 14, 1970 issue of JAMA and summarizes a recent speech made by Walter C. Bornemeier, MD, president of the AMA, stating importance of "establishing training facilities now for medical [physician's]...
Unapproved minutes of the American Academy of Physician's Associates' Board of Directors meeting held November 11, 1972 at George Washington University, Washington, DC. Items discussed included: (1) the Academy and Association jointly approaching...
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...
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...
Article from the American Medical Association information bulletin January 1972, describing the development of accreditation essentials for different types of physician assistants being trained at different levels of responsibility across a wide...
Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association( discussing the development of the physician's assistant concept, the AMA's and other organizations' interest in the concept, the potential duties of PAs, their acceptance by...
This guide was prepared, revised and published by the American Medical Association in June 1975 "to answer some of the questions most frequently asked by physicians who are considering the employment of physician's assistants in their practice."...
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...
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...