Summary minutes of meeting held between AAPA's Board of Directors and its Board of Advisors on April 19, 1972 in Durham, NC prior to the Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants. Major topics discussed were: the proliferation of other...
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...
A manuscript written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1969 and submitted to Dr. Thomas Kinney, Director of Medical Education at Duke University, describing his philosophy about the undergraduate and graduate education of physicians and their newest team...
Letters written by Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. in 1967 answering a variety of questions about the physician's assistant concept. The letters are as follows: (1) Stead to Burgen dated January 6, 1967 providing a 2-page description of PA duties and...
This essay was originally prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, February 12, 1971. The abstract is taken from a more extensive Study of Nursing and Nursing Education began in 1967. The abstract...
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...
Minutes of the Task Force on Physician's Assistant Programs of the AMA and AAMC Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) that met at the Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL on February 11, 1971. The committee accepted the National Academy of Sciences,...
The Ad Hoc Committee report classified physician assistants according to the degree of specialization, level of clinical decision-making (judgment) and length of training. These types "are distinguished primarily by the nature of the service each is...
This document contains a list of quotations "of nurses who work with University trained physician's assistants." The comments are from a study apparently conducted in 1971 by the Duke University Physician's Associate Program. All types of nursing...
Letter from Dr. Milton Johnson dated April 6, 1977 stating that the Medical Association of Georgia is "currently interested in and investigating the status of Physicians Assistants in our state." Dr. Milton indicates that his committee wants to explore...