PA Implementation Era (1966-1972)
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., established the first formal educational program to educate Physician Assistants at Duke University in 1965. His first pools of students were former military corpsmen and medics with prior health care experience. Four conferences were held at Duke University to propagate the education of PAs using the 2-year Duke curriculum model, to address accreditation, certification and legislative issues and to encourage private foundations, federal and state agencies to fund and support the develop of the PA concept. Other types of educational programs emerged during this time, notable are the four-year baccalaureate program established at Alderson-Broadus College by Dr. Hu Myers, the MEDEX program established at the University of Washington by Dr. Richard Smith, the Child Health Associate Program at the University of Colorado by Dr. Henry Smith and the Surgeon Assistant Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham by Dr. John Kirklin. By the end of this era, national accreditation and certification standards had been developed and model legislation had been drafted for state legislators to enact. The four pillars of the PA profession came into being: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the Association of Physician Assistant Programs (APAP, now PAEA); the Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs for Assistants to the Primary Care Physician (JRC-PA, now ARC-PA); and the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
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Guest speaker for Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants - Correspondence: Howard to KinneyNovember 24, 1971Dr. Robert Howard writes to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University on November 24, 1971 suggesting that President Richard Nixon be invited to speak... |
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Correspondence from E. Harvey Estes to Thomas D. Kinney regarding legal status of physician assistantsSeptember 24, 1969Letter dated September 24, 1969 from Dr. Estes to Dr. Kinney at Duke indicating that a conference [the second Duke conference] would be held on the... |
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Minutes [from] the Association of Physician Assistant ProgramsNovember 10, 1972Minutes of the first meeting of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs held November 10, 1972 at the Cloyd Heck Marvin Student Center,... |
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Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on the Physician' Assistant - Correspondence: Kinney to CooperNovember 12, 1972This brief letter dated November 12, 1972 from Dr. Kinney at Duke was sent to Dr. John A. D. Cooper, President, AAMC, with enclosed minutes of the... |
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Conference on community medical services [in North Carolina]1967This packet contains letters beginning in October 1967 and minutes dated September 9, 1967 of a distinguished panel formed at the request of Dr.... |
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American Nurses' Association views on the emerging physician's assistantsDecember 17, 1971Released by the American Nurses' Association Board of directors on December 17, 1971, this document describes the emerging training and role of... |
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AMA House Action: Medical Staff Membership and Status of Allied Health Professionals in HospitalsJuly, 1969This document released in July 1969 describes action taken by the American Medical Association House of Delegates on medical staff membership of... |
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Bachelor of Health Sciences degree [Duke University Medical Center] - Correspondence: Howard to KinneyDecember 13, 1971This letter dated December 13, 1971 from Dr. D. Robert Howard to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University summarizes steps taken from September 1969 to... |
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Duke's physicians assistants students in classroom setting, 1970December 1, 1970Photograph of Duke PA students in a classroom setting at the Medical Center in 1970 that appeared in Medical Group News, December 1970 article on... |
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Exploring the creation of the nurse clinician program [at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] - Correspondence: Dolan, Ford, DeMaria and Brown1968This series of correspondence occurred between March 26 and May 28, 1968. The exchange of letters is to arrange a meeting between public health... |