PA Practice Exam I PT Questions AND Correct Answers
"Autonomy of Practice" - ✔✔The extent to which PAs can determine
independently the range of tasks they will perform.
"Healer" - ✔✔People of respect and knowledge in a community
"Physicians" - ✔✔- Healers became referred to and healing became
linked w/ the science of prevention
% of people uninsured - ✔✔10.4%
1798 - ✔✔- John Wall - US Navy "loblolly boy" - asst. medical officer.
- Changed to "surgeon's steward" then "bayman" then "Hospital
Corpsman" in the 20th c.
1863 - ✔✔Johnanna Maria Heden - Swedish midwife - 1st female
feldsher
1891 - ✔✔- Capt. John Van Renssalaer Hoff, MC - 1st "medic"
instruction for members of the Hospital Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1898 - ✔✔- US Navy Hospital Corps
,1910 - ✔✔Flexner Report to Carnegie
-· Called on med schools to be science-based, and to have higher
admission and graduation standards
· Nearly ½ the schools did not meet the standards, they merged or
shut down by 1935.
- Reverted to men only.
· 1942 teaching hospitals emerged from this report.
1911 - ✔✔- Henrietta Phelps Lawson Jeffries, AA midwife put on trial
in NC. Found not guilty after judge becomes her attorney.
1930 - ✔✔- Dr. Charles Higgins hires Eddie Rogers to be his "medic" in
urology at Cl. Clinic
- Vivien Thomas works with Dr. Alfred Blaylock at Vandy and JH. -
Work on "blue babies"
- Former military corpsmen start to receive formal training for Federal
Prison System. This led to US Public Health Service PA Program in
1968.
1940 - ✔✔- Henry "Buddy" Treadwell is trained by Dr. Amos Johnson
to be his "doctor's assistant" in rural NC
,1942 - ✔✔- Dr. Eugene Stead develops a fast-track, 3yr medical
curriculum at Emory Univ. for military service.
- No residents, so used them to help staff hospital.
- Provided model for competency-based medical curr. developed to
educate PA's at Duke in 1965.
1957 - ✔✔- Thelma Ingles takes sabbatical with Dr. Stead to develop
Nursing master's program for nurse clinicians.
- This was funded by the Rockefeller Group, but was not accredited by
the National League of Nurses because Thelma did not have a nursing
degree.
- If it had, we may not have PA's.
1959 - ✔✔- National shortage of HC providers
- 1st national HC Crisis
1960s - ✔✔Great Society, Civil Unrest, Migrant Workers
, 1961 - ✔✔- Dr. Charles Hudson addressed the House of Delegates at
the AMA. He calls for a "mid-level" provider for the ranks of former
military personnel.
1963 - ✔✔- Dr. Hu Myers approaches Alderson-Broaduss College in
WV about a 4yr PA program.
1964 - ✔✔- The Civil Rights Act is enacted
- Dr. Stead announces letter to Duke about starting PA Program
modeled after Dr. Johnson and Buddy Treadwell's relationship.
1965 - ✔✔- Dr. Stead and Ingles inaugurate first PA Program at Duke. -
Kathryn Andreoli, DSN assists with curriculum at Duke.
- NIH assisted with funding for Duke.
- Medicare and Medicaid are passed.
- Mao Zedong calls for training of "barefoot doctors"
- Dr. Henry Silver and Loretta Ford, RN establish 4 month Pediatric NP
program at CU. Original NP concept.
1967 - ✔✔- Surgical Asst. Program - U of A established under Dr. John
Kirkland.
- 1st 3 PA's graduate on 10/6/67 - Victor Germino, Kenneth Ferrell,
Richard Scheele
"Autonomy of Practice" - ✔✔The extent to which PAs can determine
independently the range of tasks they will perform.
"Healer" - ✔✔People of respect and knowledge in a community
"Physicians" - ✔✔- Healers became referred to and healing became
linked w/ the science of prevention
% of people uninsured - ✔✔10.4%
1798 - ✔✔- John Wall - US Navy "loblolly boy" - asst. medical officer.
- Changed to "surgeon's steward" then "bayman" then "Hospital
Corpsman" in the 20th c.
1863 - ✔✔Johnanna Maria Heden - Swedish midwife - 1st female
feldsher
1891 - ✔✔- Capt. John Van Renssalaer Hoff, MC - 1st "medic"
instruction for members of the Hospital Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1898 - ✔✔- US Navy Hospital Corps
,1910 - ✔✔Flexner Report to Carnegie
-· Called on med schools to be science-based, and to have higher
admission and graduation standards
· Nearly ½ the schools did not meet the standards, they merged or
shut down by 1935.
- Reverted to men only.
· 1942 teaching hospitals emerged from this report.
1911 - ✔✔- Henrietta Phelps Lawson Jeffries, AA midwife put on trial
in NC. Found not guilty after judge becomes her attorney.
1930 - ✔✔- Dr. Charles Higgins hires Eddie Rogers to be his "medic" in
urology at Cl. Clinic
- Vivien Thomas works with Dr. Alfred Blaylock at Vandy and JH. -
Work on "blue babies"
- Former military corpsmen start to receive formal training for Federal
Prison System. This led to US Public Health Service PA Program in
1968.
1940 - ✔✔- Henry "Buddy" Treadwell is trained by Dr. Amos Johnson
to be his "doctor's assistant" in rural NC
,1942 - ✔✔- Dr. Eugene Stead develops a fast-track, 3yr medical
curriculum at Emory Univ. for military service.
- No residents, so used them to help staff hospital.
- Provided model for competency-based medical curr. developed to
educate PA's at Duke in 1965.
1957 - ✔✔- Thelma Ingles takes sabbatical with Dr. Stead to develop
Nursing master's program for nurse clinicians.
- This was funded by the Rockefeller Group, but was not accredited by
the National League of Nurses because Thelma did not have a nursing
degree.
- If it had, we may not have PA's.
1959 - ✔✔- National shortage of HC providers
- 1st national HC Crisis
1960s - ✔✔Great Society, Civil Unrest, Migrant Workers
, 1961 - ✔✔- Dr. Charles Hudson addressed the House of Delegates at
the AMA. He calls for a "mid-level" provider for the ranks of former
military personnel.
1963 - ✔✔- Dr. Hu Myers approaches Alderson-Broaduss College in
WV about a 4yr PA program.
1964 - ✔✔- The Civil Rights Act is enacted
- Dr. Stead announces letter to Duke about starting PA Program
modeled after Dr. Johnson and Buddy Treadwell's relationship.
1965 - ✔✔- Dr. Stead and Ingles inaugurate first PA Program at Duke. -
Kathryn Andreoli, DSN assists with curriculum at Duke.
- NIH assisted with funding for Duke.
- Medicare and Medicaid are passed.
- Mao Zedong calls for training of "barefoot doctors"
- Dr. Henry Silver and Loretta Ford, RN establish 4 month Pediatric NP
program at CU. Original NP concept.
1967 - ✔✔- Surgical Asst. Program - U of A established under Dr. John
Kirkland.
- 1st 3 PA's graduate on 10/6/67 - Victor Germino, Kenneth Ferrell,
Richard Scheele
