Covers from three bulletins describing the Physician's Assistant Program at Duke University. The bulletins are for academic years 1969-70, 1970-71 and 1971-72. The bulletins contain photographs of early students and graduates.
This packet of information assembled in 1971 contains information on the distribution of 41 graduates of the Duke University PA Program, the prior health-related backgrounds of graduates and students, a profile of the Class of 1971 and the...
A typed copy of NC General Assembly House Bill 890 and Senate Bill 554 entitled An Act to Make an Exception to the Medical Practice Act Relative to Assistants to Physicians that was enacted July 12, 1971. The act was a direct outcome of draft...
This letter dated December 13, 1971 from Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University summarizes steps taken from September 1969 to December 12, 1970 to gain approval of the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. Committees...
These are proposed guidelines for the educational essentials for the physician's assistants prepared by a task force formed by action of the Council of Academic Societies at its November 2, 1969 meeting to "consider the role of these assistants...
This report was prepared by the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, DHEW to send to Congress in June 1971. The 1970 Public Health Service Act (Sec. 799A) required the Secretary to submit a report "identifying the major...
Resume of the proceedings of a meeting held in Durham, NC on Sunday, March 1, 1970 as an intermediate step in a project sponsored by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to develop a legislative proposal under which physician's...
Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics,...