PA History Trivia

This feature will be updated frequently with new questions designed to challenge one's knowledge of the PA profession. We hope the questions will be enjoyable and the feedback educational. We encourage you to submit your own questions, answers and feedback (with references) to us at our email address: PAHx@mc.duke.edu. A panel will select questions to be used and the authors will be given credit for their submissions.

1. The prime time NBC television program that aired in December 1970 portraying the medico legal plight of an ex-military corpsman arrested for giving aid to an accident victim in a medically isolated community in California was:

A. The Young Lawyers
B. The Storefront Lawyers
C. The Bold Ones
D. Marcus Welby, MD

2. The organization incorporated in 1970 by PA program educators to assure the clinical competence of their graduates and served as the forerunner of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs was the:

A. Physicians’ Associates Education Research Foundation (PAERF)
B. American Registry of Physicians’ Associates (ARPA)
C. National Registry of Physician’s Associates (NRPA)
D. American Board of Physician Associates (ABPA)

3. Who was the “doctor’s assistant” trained and employed by Dr. Amos Johnson in Garland, NC who served as Dr. Eugene Stead, Jr.’s role model when he began formally educating PAs at Duke University?

A. Steve Turnipseed
B. Joyce Nichols
C. Prentiss Harrison
D. Henry Treadwell

4. In 1967, Dr. John W. Kirklin, initiated the first surgeon's assistant program at which institution?

A. University of Alabama/Birmingham
B. Weill Cornell Medical College/New York
C. The State University of New Jersey/Rutgers
D. Emory University/Atlanta

5. What national legislation paved the way for the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bureau of Health Manpower Education, to award contracts to fund the education of physician assistants for the first time?

A. Federal Economy Act of 1970
B. Comprehensive Health Manpower Training Act of 1971
C. Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963
D. Higher Education Act of 1972