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News Release: Funding for Pediatric Associate Program at the University of Colorado - Carnegie Corporation

Description:	This news release dated December 15, 1968 states that "two of the nation's larger philanthropic foundations, Carnegie Corporation of new York and the Commonwealth Fund" will fund "an experimental program to prepare a wholly new type of...
Date Submitted:	December 15, 1968

Physician's Assistants: Legal Issues

Description:	This report on legal issues for physician assistants was presented by E. Harvey Estes, Jr. to the Health Advisory Committee of Duke University Medical Center on January 5, 1972. It describes the liability dangers faced by both the physician and...
Date Submitted:	January 5, 1972

Job description and general occupational guidelines - Correspondence: Sessoms to Trask

Description:	In response to Dr. Carl R. Trask request for information, Dr. Sessoms, director, Duke Hospital, sends a copy of a general occupational guidelines and job descriptions for physician's associates used by the Duke Hospital.
Date Submitted:	February 15, 1972

Physician's Assistants: Selected References

Description:	This reading list on physician's assistants was compiled and released by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Division of Library Services. in December, 1972. The list was "selected from publications generally available in most hospital and...
Date Submitted:	December, 1972

American Hospital Association: Medical Staff Membership and the Status of Certain Related Health Professionals in Hospitals

Description:	Approved by the American Hospital Association on November 17-19, 1971, this 2 page document states that there should be only one organized medical stall in a hospital, governed by a single set of bylaws. "Health professionals involved in medical...
Date Submitted:	November, 1971

Request for job description and hospital bylaws related to physicians assistant - Correspondence: Trask to Sessoms

Description:	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...
Date Submitted:	February 9, 1972

New Jersey Physician Assistant Legislation - Correspondence: Florio to Mittman

Description:	Response letter was sent from Jim Florio, Governor, New Jersey to David E. Mittman, publisher of Physician Assistant, on January 29, 1990 acknowledging New Jersey as the only state in which physician assistants may not practice. Governor Floria...
Date Submitted:	January 29, 1990

American Nurses' Association views on the emerging physician's assistants

Description:	Released by the American Nurses' Association Board of directors on December 17, 1971, this document describes the emerging training and role of physician assistants. The document cautions that "The term "physician's assistant" should not be...
Date Submitted:	December 17, 1971

AMA House Action: Medical Staff Membership and Status of Allied Health Professionals in Hospitals

Description:	This document released in July 1969 describes action taken by the American Medical Association House of Delegates on medical staff membership of allied health professionals in hospitals. The adopted statement was to be disseminated to "all...
Date Submitted:	July, 1969

The Pediatric Assistant

Description:	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...
Date Submitted:	1968