April 10 - April 21
ISU Meridian Sam and Aline Skaggs Health Science Center, First Floor
April 24 - May 20
Eli M. Oboler Library, First Floor
Pocatello Campus
Dr. Amos Johnson (left) and PA Buddy Treadwell (right) examining a patient, 1967. Courtesy National Library of Medicine.
Beginning in the 1940s, Buddy Treadwell trained with Dr. Amos Johnson to assist his general practice in rural North Carolina. Treadwell conducted initial patient examinations, oversaw treatments, and performed some emergency procedures.
U.S. Army Captain Victor Tucker, PA-C (left), Kapisa, Afghanistan, 2008. Courtesy Physician Assistant History Society.
During a medical engagement, Captain Victor Tucker cared for patients in the Tagab Valley.
Winnie Barron, PA-C walking with children, Makindu, Kenya, 2009. Courtesy Makindu Children's Program/Cathy DeLong.
Winnie Barron opened the Makindu Children’s Program in 1998, to provide children orphaned by AIDS with medical care, food, education and emotional support.
PA students with patients in Kimchee Health Camp, Ghandruk, Nepal, 2014. ©Nick Pedersen/Courtesy UPAP.
University of Utah PA students traveled to a remote Nepalese village to provide care.
J. Curtis Vaughn with YMCA campers, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Courtesy American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Project Access is a program that provides potential PA students from underrepresented groups with mentors who support their interest in the profession. Mentor J. Curtis Vaughn, PA-C, teaches YMCA campers how to use a reflex hammer at a Project Access event.
The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website. Guest curator: Loren Miller, PhD
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