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...
This draft paper was authored by Dr. William DeMaria, Assistant Dean, Duke University Medical School. Dr. DeMaria chaired a Subcommittee on the Physician and His Associates in Health for the Bureau of Health Services, DHEW in 1968. Since the paper...
This packet of materials provides an overview of the PA curriculum that was in place in 1968 at Duke University. The curriculum was developed under the "guidance of an Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the Vice Provost." The twenty-four month...
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.
Duke University School of Medicine First Year Students, 1968: Alexander, J.C., Jr.; Andersen, D.K.; Andrade, W.G., Jr.; Andrew, C.G.; Andrews, M.J., Jr.; Arvan, G.D.; Barco, D.H.; Bley, D.E.; Bornstein, N.G.; Bowes, P.Z.; Butts, J.D., Jr.;...
Prentiss L. Harrison graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1968. He was the first African American physician assistant in the country.