PA PRACTICE EXAM I PT QUESTIONS
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Fledshers - ANS - Russian "PAs"
-90% woman
- "complimentary/substitutional" - not next to/in relief of docs.
China's Barefoot Docs - ANS 1965 - Cultural Revolution
- 2-3 month training
-peasant performing medical duties, not a HC worker
Conditions that fostered PA Concept - ANS 1. Elimination of deprivation of society among
poor, minority & women
2. Inc. to positive value attached to health & HC --- system, delivery, cost
3. Supply of phys & specialty maldistribution
4. Physician extender models --- midwives, Feldshers...
5. Nurses & corpsmen avaialble
6. Need for clinical support professional
1910 - ANS Flexner Report to Carnegie
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,-· 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.
First half of 20th Century - ANS - 94% white men doctors
- Fee for Service - Cash
-Hospitals 20% of HC
WWII Impact on Medicine - ANS - PCN
- Plasma
-Medics
Post WWII - ANS - Rapid decline in generalists due to restricted privileges so they use GI
money to become specialists.
1960s - ANS Great Society, Civil Unrest, Migrant Workers
1959 - ANS - National shortage of HC providers
- 1st national HC Crisis
Natalie Holt - ANS - Wrote "Confusions Masterpiece" about how nurses could have had PAs
but NLN shut them down
-RN w/ BSN to enhance image
1798 - ANS - John Wall - US Navy "loblolly boy" - asst. medical officer.
- Changed to "surgeon's steward" then "bayman" then "Hospital Corpsman" in the 20th c.
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, 1863 - ANS Johnanna Maria Heden - Swedish midwife - 1st female feldsher
1891 - ANS - Capt. John Van Renssalaer Hoff, MC - 1st "medic" instruction for members of
the Hospital Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1898 - ANS - US Navy Hospital Corps
1911 - ANS - Henrietta Phelps Lawson Jeffries, AA midwife put on trial in NC. Found not guilty
after judge becomes her attorney.
1930 - ANS - 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 - ANS - Henry "Buddy" Treadwell is trained by Dr. Amos Johnson to be his "doctor's
assistant" in rural NC
1942 - ANS - 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.
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WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS |
LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
Fledshers - ANS - Russian "PAs"
-90% woman
- "complimentary/substitutional" - not next to/in relief of docs.
China's Barefoot Docs - ANS 1965 - Cultural Revolution
- 2-3 month training
-peasant performing medical duties, not a HC worker
Conditions that fostered PA Concept - ANS 1. Elimination of deprivation of society among
poor, minority & women
2. Inc. to positive value attached to health & HC --- system, delivery, cost
3. Supply of phys & specialty maldistribution
4. Physician extender models --- midwives, Feldshers...
5. Nurses & corpsmen avaialble
6. Need for clinical support professional
1910 - ANS Flexner Report to Carnegie
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,-· 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.
First half of 20th Century - ANS - 94% white men doctors
- Fee for Service - Cash
-Hospitals 20% of HC
WWII Impact on Medicine - ANS - PCN
- Plasma
-Medics
Post WWII - ANS - Rapid decline in generalists due to restricted privileges so they use GI
money to become specialists.
1960s - ANS Great Society, Civil Unrest, Migrant Workers
1959 - ANS - National shortage of HC providers
- 1st national HC Crisis
Natalie Holt - ANS - Wrote "Confusions Masterpiece" about how nurses could have had PAs
but NLN shut them down
-RN w/ BSN to enhance image
1798 - ANS - John Wall - US Navy "loblolly boy" - asst. medical officer.
- Changed to "surgeon's steward" then "bayman" then "Hospital Corpsman" in the 20th c.
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, 1863 - ANS Johnanna Maria Heden - Swedish midwife - 1st female feldsher
1891 - ANS - Capt. John Van Renssalaer Hoff, MC - 1st "medic" instruction for members of
the Hospital Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1898 - ANS - US Navy Hospital Corps
1911 - ANS - Henrietta Phelps Lawson Jeffries, AA midwife put on trial in NC. Found not guilty
after judge becomes her attorney.
1930 - ANS - 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 - ANS - Henry "Buddy" Treadwell is trained by Dr. Amos Johnson to be his "doctor's
assistant" in rural NC
1942 - ANS - 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.
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