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1650 |
Feldshers, originally German military medical
assistants, are introduced into Russian armies by Peter the
Great in the 17th Century. |
USS Constellation
John W. Schmidt
Navy Art Collection |
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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. |
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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 |
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1891 |
Establishment of the first company for "medic"
instruction at Fort Riley, Kansas. |
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 Medical
Directive Frontier Nursing Service |
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1925 |
Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier
Nursing Service in mountains of Kentucky and builds Wendover,
marking the first effort to professionalize midwifery in the
United States. |
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1940 |
Community Health Aids introduced in Alaska to
improve the village health status of Eskimos and other native
Americans. |
Johnson and
Treadwell with
Patient |
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1940 |
Dr. Amos N. Johnson employs Henry "Buddy"
Treadwell as office assistant and over time trains him as 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 assistant model. |
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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 |
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1957 |
Thelma Ingles, RN, begins 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 |
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1959 |
US Surgeon General identifies shortage of medically
trained personnel. |
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