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Question 1 of 5
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1. The first female physician to help establish and direct a physician assistant program was:
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Dr. Margaret Kirklin, the wife of Dr. John K. Kirklin, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, made her husband’s idea to formally educate Surgeon’s Assistants at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) into a reality as the program’s academic director from 1968 to 1974. (See Biographies for other people listed in this question).
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Dr. Margaret Kirklin, the wife of Dr. John K. Kirklin, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, made her husband’s idea to formally educate Surgeon’s Assistants at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) into a reality as the program’s academic director from 1968 to 1974. (See Biographies for other people listed in this question).
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Question 2 of 5
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2. The first person to serve as a student representative on the American Academy of Physician Assistant’s (AAPA) Board of directors and as the first president of the Student Academy of the AAPA (SAAAPA) was:
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As a PA student, Heinrich was elected by fellow students from different programs, to represent PA students on the AAPA Board of Directors. He was asked to develop a student academy for the organization with representatives from each individual program. In this role, he was recognized as the first Student President of the AAPA. The official Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (SAAAPA) was developed a few years later. (See Biographies for more information on others listed in this question).References:
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As a PA student, Heinrich was elected by fellow students from different programs, to represent PA students on the AAPA Board of Directors. He was asked to develop a student academy for the organization with representatives from each individual program. In this role, he was recognized as the first Student President of the AAPA. The official Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (SAAAPA) was developed a few years later. (See Biographies for more information on others listed in this question).References:
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Question 3 of 5
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3. The first clinical nurse specialist at Duke (1963) who later became Dean of Duke’s Nursing School and insisted that Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr. accept women into the newly created Physician Assistant Program was:
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Stead sought Wilson’s advice and support in preliminary meetings to design the PA Program’s curriculum and to gain support for the PA concept from the medical and nursing staff at Duke University and her nursing education colleagues nationally. She was a champion for women’s rights and insisted that Stead accept women, in addition to men, into the newly created physician assistant program when he initially only deemed it for men. (See Biographies for more information on the other people listed in this question).
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Ruby Wilson Biography
You may listen to the Ruby Wilson Oral History Interview here
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Stead sought Wilson’s advice and support in preliminary meetings to design the PA Program’s curriculum and to gain support for the PA concept from the medical and nursing staff at Duke University and her nursing education colleagues nationally. She was a champion for women’s rights and insisted that Stead accept women, in addition to men, into the newly created physician assistant program when he initially only deemed it for men. (See Biographies for more information on the other people listed in this question).
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Ruby Wilson Biography
You may listen to the Ruby Wilson Oral History Interview here
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Question 4 of 5
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4. What is the name of the annual event that was masterminded by the AAPA Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) and implemented in 1987 to increase the number of people of color and from economically disadvantaged communities into the PA profession?
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Project Access was first discussed by leaders of the AAPA Minority Affairs Committee during the AAPA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA in 1986 and implemented the following year at the AAPA Annual Conference in Cincinnati OH. The goal was to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PA Programs by having minority PA role models visit local high schools in the host city and talk about their education and careers as PAs.
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Karen Bates Video about the History of Project Access
Video of Peggy Valentine thanking New Orleans Schools for helping arrange PA visits during Project Access in 1990
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Project Access was first discussed by leaders of the AAPA Minority Affairs Committee during the AAPA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA in 1986 and implemented the following year at the AAPA Annual Conference in Cincinnati OH. The goal was to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PA Programs by having minority PA role models visit local high schools in the host city and talk about their education and careers as PAs.
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Karen Bates Video about the History of Project Access
Video of Peggy Valentine thanking New Orleans Schools for helping arrange PA visits during Project Access in 1990
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Question 5 of 5
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5. The CEO and Executive Director of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) under whose leadership the AAPA built its own office building in Alexandria VA in 1987 was:
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May served as the Executive Director of the AAPA from 1984 – 1992. May also injected a more business-like approach to the AAPA’s Board of Directors. These efforts led to a more financially stable future for the organization and – ultimately – the ability of the AAPA to construct its own headquarters building in Alexandria, Virginia in 1987.
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Remembering Lynn May Article from the PA History Society Newsletter
Listen to the Lynn May Oral History Interview
AAPA Building in Alexandria, VA
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May served as the Executive Director of the AAPA from 1984 – 1992. May also injected a more business-like approach to the AAPA’s Board of Directors. These efforts led to a more financially stable future for the organization and – ultimately – the ability of the AAPA to construct its own headquarters building in Alexandria, Virginia in 1987.
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Remembering Lynn May Article from the PA History Society Newsletter
Listen to the Lynn May Oral History Interview
AAPA Building in Alexandria, VA