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- A paper delivered by Warren Ball, Assistant Director, Dept. of Allied Medical Professions and Services, American Medical Association to the Association of Military Surgeons Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC on November 17, 1969. The author cites to passage of a House of Delegates resolution in July 1969 encouraging "recruitment into the health professions of health-oriented personnel released from the armed services." Background is provided on the establishment of the Council on Allied Health Professions and Services. The author highlights efforts of the Santa Clara County Medical Society, San Jose, CA in 1968 to develop, via a local Medical Society and Federal funds, "a program of education and placement of paramedical personnel drawn from the ranks of military service dischargees." The program was commended for its success at a meeting of the AMA Committee on Emerging Health Manpower and Physician's Assistants held in Los Angeles on May 21, 1969. The author, however, admits that the program has major obstacles and pointed to the Medex program at the University of Washington in Seattle as another means of training military personnel for civilian health care roles. He also mentions the two year PA program at Duke University, in Durham, NC, the 4-year program at Alderson-Broaddus College, in Philippi, WV and other pioneering specialty PA programs emerging in 1969.
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