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Each item in our Digital Collection has a unique identity number with accompanying metadata providing details about the item including standard, searchable database fields (title, subject, date, creator, etc.). We want our users to have a genuine and authentic experience when viewing the online collection. We recognize that looking at material online is not the same as holding the original in your hands, but it helps protect, provide easy retrieval and repeated use of items without damage - one of our goals for digitizing the collection. Some items may be missing metadata information. If you have knowledge of any missing information, please let us know so that we can provide the most accurate and abundant information possible.

The original searchable database was created with July 2002 grant funding from the State Library of North Carolina, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online Digitization Grants. Reginald Carter (Director of the PA History Office) and Thomas Clark (Special Collection Project Manager) to work with Pat Thibodeau (Associate Dean for Library Services), Charlie Lackey (Head of Cataloging Department), Russell Koonts (Archivist) and other members of the library staff organized, cataloged, created metadata and digitized selected items from a collection of materials housed in the DUMC archives. Additional funding from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc. allowed for further database augmentation. The Physician Assistant History Digital Collection was moved to MeDSpace in February 2008.

The PA History Digital Collection contains over 3,000 images selected from materials contained in the DUMC Archival and PA History Society's special collections. New images are added as items are selected and processed. The PA History Center Website allow users to search the online repositories of digital images of articles, reports, photographs, biographies, artifact and other memorabilia associated with the history of the physician assistant profession. Developed and maintained by the Society for the Preservation of PA History and the DUMC Library & Archives, the digital archival collection is intended to be used only for academic, research and literary purposes. Please read the Terms of Use prior to accessing the collection.

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Total Works (481)

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	Title	Date Created
	Starting Physician's Assistant Training Program at Duke University - Internal Correspondence: Stead to Frenzel A 1964 letter from Eugene A. Stead, Jr. to Charles H. Frenzel at Duke Hospital expressing desire to meet to discuss establishing an educational... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["April 21, 1964"]
	Minutes of the Hyperbaric Operating Committee [Duke University]; March 30, 1965 These minutes of the Hyperbaric Operating Committee, Duke University Medical Center, dated March 30, 1965 make reference to two recently awarded... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["March 30, 1965"]
	Hyperbaric training grants [Duke University] - Correspondence: Satlzman to Woodhall, et.al. This letter from Dr. Herbert A. Saltzman, director of Hyperbaric Medicine, Duke University dated March 15, 1965 to Dr. Woodhall and other Duke... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["March 15, 1965"]
	Minutes of the Hyperbaric Operating Committee [Duke University]; 4 October 1965 These minutes of the Hyperbaric Operating Committee, Duke University Medical Center, dated October 4, 1965 states that the "formal portion of the... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["October 4, 1965"]
	Operation Breakthrough, Economics Opportunity Act, Grant [Duke University PA Program] - Correspondence: Mau to Woodhall and Anlyan This memorandum dated October 2, 1964 was sent by Department of Medicine Administrator, Jim Mau, to Dr. Woodhall and Dr. Anlyan, Duke University to... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["October 2, 1964"]
	The start of a new educational venture under the guidance of the Medical Center - Correspondence: Stead to Woodhall In this letter to Woodhall, Stead announces that "the hyperbaric unit will begin a formal training program for environmental chamber technicians... This work also belongs to: PA Ideological Era (1961-1965)	["March 23, 1965"]
	PA Profile A pamphlet created by the American Academy of Physician Assistants for the purposes of advertising the PA career as well as the Physician Assistant... This work also belongs to: PA Incorporation Era (1981-1990)	["1983"]
	Proficiency Examination in Surgery for Physician's Assistants Announcement, pamphlet and application form created by the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants to register PAs to take... This work also belongs to: PA Incorporation Era (1981-1990)	["April, 1981"]
	National Certifying Examination for Primary Care PAs This announcement produced by the National Commission indicates that the National Certifying Examination for Primary Care Physician Assistants is... This work also belongs to: PA Incorporation Era (1981-1990)	["May, 1981"]
	Recertification Examination: Pros and Cons - Correspondence: Rensch to Stanhope In his 27 February 1981 letter to William Stanhope, Dick Rensch reacts strongly to a recent memorandum sent by Mr. Stanhope to "all PAs" voicing... This work also belongs to: PA Incorporation Era (1981-1990)	["February 27, 1981"]

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