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Search Options
This
menu provides ways to search for materials located either (1) in the
DUMC Archives, (2) in the PA History Center's Digital Collection or
(3) on the PA History Center Website.
The DUMC Archival finding aids allows you access to documents
and materials pertaining to physician assistants. This material
is distributed in over 30 collections, the Physician Assistant
Program being the largest. Key words to be used in your search
are: physician’s assistant or physician’s associate
with or without the apostrophe. You may also use the acronyms
PA, AAPA, APAP and NCCPA to find material. As a combined collection,
the Cultural History of the Physician Assistant (PA) Profession
Collection is one of the largest digital and original collections
of material related to the development of the health team approach
to the delivery of medical and preventive health care services
in the USA. This special collection is an outgrowth of the PA
History Office established at the Duke University Medical Center
in 2001 as a collaborative effort of the Department of Community
and Family Medicine and the DUMC Library and DUMC Archives. The
Society for the Preservation of PA History along with its collaborating
organizations and sponsors oversee, promote, and provide financial
support necessary to develop and expand the use of the collection.
This collaborative project is supported with federal LSTA funds
made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina,
a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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. Supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent
Memorial Foundation, Inc., a search engine has been added to the
PA History Center Website to allow users to search our 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
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.
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, contributor,
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 PA History Center Website contains exhibits, biographical
sketches, and reference materials describing the development of
the PA profession. This search engine allows you to search the
contents of the Illustrated PA History Website including timeline
entries, biographical sketches, exhibits, references, photographs,
artifact, trivia questions, etc. embedded throughout the site's
pages. The results of your search will be one or more links with
clear, short" extracts of the page showing the word or phrase
used in your search. We have added this feature to allow you to
SEARCH THIS SITE for relevant information without going through
so many web pages or levels of content.
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