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The Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History, Inc. (PA History Society) is dedicated to the history and legacy of the physician assistant profession through the identification and collection of appropriate papers, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, dissertations, oral histories, and visual artifacts, such as films, slides, videos, photographs, and digital images.
Read the latest issue of our newsletter, Historical Happenings.
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Established in 1972, the School of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Florida has experienced significant growth over its 40 years of existence.
Natalie Holt, MD, became fascinated with the PA concept while in college and wrote an erudite undergraduate thesis on the interplay of medicine and nursing in the 1950s and 1960s.