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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Schedule for AMA site visit to Duke PA program - Correspondence: Lewis to Kinney

May 23, 1972
In this letter David E. Lewis, the Associate Director of the Duke PA program, describes the AMA's visit that had taken place the previous week. The...
 

Nomenclature issue - Correspondence: Kernodle to Anlyan

May 15, 1972
In his letter to Dr. William Anlyan at Duke dated May 15, 1972, Dr. John Kernodle, Vice Chairman of the AMA Board of Trustees, relates the concerns...
 

Reports of the Legislative Research Commission to the North Carolina General Assembly: Health

January, 1971
This is a 1971 legislative report prepared by the Legislative Research Commission for the NC General Assembly covering a variety of health care...
 

Guest speaker for Fourth Annual Duke Conference on Physician's Assistants - Correspondence: Howard to Kinney

November 24, 1971
Dr. Robert Howard writes to Dr. Thomas Kinney at Duke University on November 24, 1971 suggesting that President Richard Nixon be invited to speak...
 

Correspondence from E. Harvey Estes to Thomas D. Kinney regarding legal status of physician assistants

September 24, 1969
Letter 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...
 

People vs. Whittaker, Shasta County, CA - Correspondence: Stevenson to Stead

August 30, 1967
Letter from Dr. George Stevenson thanking Dr. Eugene Stead for traveling to Redding for "purpose of aiding the paramedical technician endeavor."...
 

Current status of the physician's assistant and related issues

June 26, 1972
Article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association( discussing the development of the physician's assistant concept, the AMA's...
 

Scientific exhibit at 1970 Annual meeting of the North Carolina Medical Society, Pinehurst NC, Correspondence: Joyner to Howard

March 16, 1970
Letter from Stephen Joyner, AAPA Board of Directors, to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA Program, thanking him for financial...
 

Program at Duke : doctors' assistants on rise.

March 11, 1970
Article written by Dr. D. Robert Howard, MD that appeared in Times Educational Supplement, March 11, 1970. The supplement appeared in three US...
 

Program at Duke: doctors' assistants on rise

March 11, 1969
Correspondence from Bob Jones, associate editor of Army Times Publishing Company, to D. Robert Howard, Director of the Duke University PA Program,...