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18091
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Given shortages of availability and quality of health care for many in North Carolina, the state has attempted to improve the situation with medical schools and health departments. Additionally, new training in physician's assistants takes the added stress of peripheral tasks off doctors' hands.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 38 Issue 5, Feb 1972, p13-17
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26291
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North Carolina is facing a shortage in primary medical care. In response, programs are being developed to increase the productivity of physicians delivering primary care by using a helper, who is specifically trained as a physician’s assistant.
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Health Law Bulletin (NoCar KFN 7754 A1 H42x), Vol. Issue 31, Mar 1972, p1-5, f
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34952
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In 1965, Duke University piloted the first physician assistant (PA) program as a way to integrate military personnel with medical knowledge into a civilian job. Since then, PA programs have spread throughout the world and over 100,000 assistants have been certified in the U.S. This program also introduced a collaborative method to approaching medicine and expanded aid to underserved communities.
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40065
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The profiled ECU physician’s assistant program graduate helps generate Vance Family Medicine’s family-like atmosphere. As for the combination of caring and capability medical professionals like Tanya Darrow exhibit, it’s particularly valuable for the region she works. It contains a considerable number of communities medically underserved as well as rural.