Volume 15, numbers 1-8; January 1968; February 1968; March 1968; May 1968; June 1968; September 1968; November 1968; December 1968. Published montly by and for the staff of Duke University Medical Center, Box 3354, Durham, North Carolina through June...
Wilburt Davison (holding shovel) and John McGovern replanting the Osler ivy outside of the Davison Building. The first School of Medicine graduating class originally planted ivy in 1932 to commemorate commencement ceremonies.
Eleanor Flanagan Branch in classroom. Given in a scrapbook to Helen Kaiser in 1968. Branch was an alumni class of 1951 and a physical therapy faculty member for 40 years.
Prentiss L. Harrison graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1968. He was the first African American physician assistant in the country.
In his May 28, 1968 letter, Dr. Theodore Scurletis, North Carolina State Board of Health, asked Dr. Jay Arena, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University, to review a paper that he has drafted to present on June 6. Dr. Arena responds "Your comments are...
Photograph from Roche Medical Image magazine, August, 1968 depicting Mr. Craig Bruno, physician assistant, completing a pre-employment physical for pulp mill worker in Plymouth, NC. Mr. Bruno is drawing blood from patient's arm.
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 professional...
This letter dated April 9, 1968 from Frank Goldsmith, Assistant Director for Special Staff Services, Office of Program Planning and Evaluation, Bureau of Health Services, DHEW, to Dr. William J. DeMaria at Duke University Medical Center, announces the...
Dr. Davison, former Dean of the Duke University Medical School, sent E. Harvey Estes, Jr. this letter in 1968 with a clipping from Newsweek Magazine about an individual who had masqueraded as a physician in small town in Texas. When asked many of the...
In this July 1968 memorandum to chapter chairs, James B. Gillespie, Secretary for Chapters, American Academy of Pediatrics, discusses Dr. John Connelly's program in Boston to train nurses in the child health field. He mentions the development of...
In his October 3, 1968 letter to Dr. William Anlyan, Dean of the Medical School, Dr. D. Robert Howard indicates that the AMA Council on Medical Education will not be sponsoring the conference scheduled for October 28-29 at Duke University. However...
Early article appearing in Roche Medical Image [magazine] describing role of physician assistant. The article features Craig Bruno a graduate of the Duke University PA program who is the first PA hired on a one-year trial basis at a community clinic...
This series of correspondence occurred between March 26 and May 28, 1968. The exchange of letters is to arrange a meeting between public health leaders at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Duke University with Dr. Loretta Ford...
Summary report of a conference held at Duke University on March 31 and April 1, 1968 to discuss ethical and legal implications of introducing new health practitioners, using physician assistants as an example, into the American health care delivery...