Army Physicians' Attitudes Towards Physicians' Assistants.

Abstract

In Februrary 1972 the US Army Medical Field Service School will commence training a new category of health personnel, to be known as the physicians' assistant. This type of allied health personnel will be an assistant to the physician, trained to do many of the traditional tasks usually performed by a physician, but requiring less education. There has been some question about exactly what tasks these physicians' assistants should be trained to do, and how such a person would function. Few opinion surveys of physicians concerning physicians' assistants have been made. In 1969 and in 1967 a similar study was done in the Army to gain insight into the attitudes of Army physicians.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0759135

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey H. Bair
  • Richard B. Stuart

Organizations

  • Brooke Army Medical Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Physicians
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Medical or Health Care Field.