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Precedent Events and Prototype Period (1950 to 1960)
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Precedent Events and Prototype Period (1950 to 1960)
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The predecessors, social and political events preceding and fostering the establishment of the PA profession.
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1650 to 1960
The predecessors, social and political events preceding and fostering the establishment of the PA profession.
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1959
US Surgeon General identifies shortage of medically trained personnel.
1957
Thelma Ingles, RN, begins a clinical sabbatical with Dr. Stead at Duke University which leads to the establishment of a master's degree program for nurse clinicians at the School of Nursing. Although successful, the program is denied accreditation by the National League for Nursing (NLN).
Thelma Ingles at Duke
1942
Dr. Eugene Stead, Jr. is forced to develop a fast track, 3-year applied medical curriculum to educate physicians at Emory University for military service during World War II and has to use medical students and residents to primarily run Emory University and Grady Hospitals in Atlanta, GA.
Stead at Emory
1940
Community Health Aids are introduced in Alaska to improve the village health status of Eskimos and other Native Americans.
Dr. Amos N. Johnson employs Henry "Buddy" Treadwell as office assistant and over time, trains him as a prototype PA to work in his rural-based general practice in Garland, NC, exposing Dr. Eugene Stead, Jr. and general medicine residents at Duke University to the physician assistant model.
Johnson and Treadwell with Patient
1925
Mary Breckinridge establishes the Frontier Nursing Service in mountains of Kentucky and builds Wendover, marking the first effort to professionalize midwifery in the United States.
Medical Directive Frontier Nursing Service
1891
The establishment of the first company for "medic" instruction at Fort Riley, Kansas
1803
Officiers de Sante are introduced in France by Rene Fourcroy to help alleviate health personnel shortages in the military and civilian sectors (abolished in 1892).
Hospital Corps. Camp Boynton Beaver Park
1778
An enlisted man, John Wall, is assigned by the US Navy as a “loblolly boy” to assist medical officers on the USS Constellation. One year later, Congress passes a bill authorizing the Navy to use hospital mates modeled after the "loblolly boys" of the British Royal Navy to assist physicians in care of sailors.
USS Constellation John W. Schmidt Navy Art Collection
1650
Feldshers, originally German military medical assistants, are introduced into Russian armies by Peter the Great in the 17th Century.
