Film & Video

The following is a list of film and video that currently exist in the PAHx office collection. They will be digitized and preserved electronically. Clips and still frames from these films and videos will be incorporated into the PA History Illustrated web site and used to prepare educational media and publications. The PAHx office will seek additional contributions of video and film to add to the collection. This material will be preserved electronically, cataloged and index for the online searchable archival database.

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MEDEX North West
produced and directed by Alan Paul Rhone for the University of Washington to document MEDEX program and graduates. Seattle, WA, [color film and videorecording] 1970.

• Introduction and Title (48 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)
• Dr. Richard Smith founder of MEDEX describes method of training (66 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)

Status Report: the Physicians Assistant
produced by the Veterans Administration updating hospitals about the Duke PA Program, Durham, NC. [color film and videorecording] 1971.

• Introduction and Title (53 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)
• Steve Joyner, PA-C provides pediatric care in a rural clinic (39 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)

Physician Assistants: Partners in Primary Care
produced by the Learning Resource Center and the PA Program, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to promote the PA concept to physicians and health administrators, Oklahoma City, OK [color film converted to videorecording] 1976.

• Introduction and Title (50 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)
• Why doctors need to employ PAs (27 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)

The Physician Assistant: New Member of the Health Care Team
produced by Medical Media Production Services, Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Louis, MO (Steve Levey, director) to introduce audiences to the education and use of PAs in both rural and urban settings. Produced in cooperation with the St. Louis PA Program and VA Hospital.
[videorecording] 1977.

• Introduction and Title (51 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)
• Dr. Frances Horvath, St. Louis PA Program, explains prerequisites for admission to PA programs (43 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)
• Why PAs are so great – personal testimony of employing physician serving urban community (36 seconds, Windows Media Streaming file)

Physician Assistant: History of a Health Manpower Innovation
produced by Duke University Medical Center Department of Audiovisual Education. Durham, NC: Duke University, [videorecording] 1993.

• Introduction and Title (50 seconds, Windows Streaming Media file)
• Dr. Eugene Stead, Jr., describes why he began the first formal PA education program at Duke (80 seconds, Windows Streaming Media file)
• Joyce Nichols, PA-C, helped establish one of the first rural satellite clinics in the country (54 seconds, Windows Streaming Media file)
• The founding of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (60 seconds, Windows Streaming Media file)

Whatcha Going To Do (Going Back)
produced by WNVT, Northern Virginia Educational Television Associates as a children’s career videotape highlighting Joyce Nichols, PA-C working in a rural satellite clinic in NC in the early 1970s. [videorecording] 1973.  

Mike, Wain and Juanita: Physician’s Assistants
produced by The Film Program, Department of Theatre Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook for the Department of Physician’s Assistant Education, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY [videorecording] c 1980.

The Surgical Physician Assistant/produced for the Norwalk
Yale Physician Assistant Surgical Residency Program by Rediscovery Productions, Inc., Westport, CN [videorecording] 1983.

Doc! Livesaver then – Caregivers now
produced by MedVets, Inc. to highlight the contributions of medics who served their country in Vietnam and have continued to provide health care services as physician assistants. Washington, DC [videorecording] 1985.

PAs: A Dynamic Profession, Past-Present-Future
produced for the American Academy of Physician Assistants by Reel Resources, Inc to market the PA profession. PAs are featured working in various clinical and non-clinical settings. Washington, DC [videorecording] 1985.

How to Market to the Physician Assistant … A Discussion for the Pharmaceutical Industry
produced for the Physician Assistant Journal by DP/PD Productions. Alexandria, VA, [videorecording] 1989.

PArtners: The Future of Medicine
produced by the American Academy of Physician Assistants to promote the PA as a carrier option for high school or college students. Alexandria, VA [videorecording] 1990.

Clinical Skill Problems: An Orientation Program
produced for the National Commission on Certification of Physicians Assistants, Inc. by the Duke University Medical Center, Division of Audiovisual Education. Durham, NC [videorecording] 1995.