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Dr. Eugene Anson Stead Jr. (b. October 6, 1908, Atlanta, Georgia - d. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year June 12, 2005) is best known as a medical educator, researcher, and the founder of the Physician Assistant or P. Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor (i Research is defined as Human activity based on Intellectual application in the investigation of Matter. In the United States, a physician assistant (PA is an advanced practice clinician licensed to practice Medicine with the supervision of a licensed A. profession. He served on the faculty at Harvard, Emory (where he received a Bachelor of Science and MD degree), and Duke universities. Emory University is a Private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Doctor of Medicine ( MD or MD, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor meaning "Teacher of Medicine" is a doctoral Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. His research in the 1940s paved the way for cardiac catheterization in medicine today. Cardiac catheterization ( heart cath) is the insertion of a Catheter into a chamber or vessel of the Heart.

National PA Day is celebrated in many places on October 6th, Eugene Stead's birthday, in honor of his accomplishments.

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Postgraduate work

In 1967, he graduated the first class of Physician Assistant students from Duke University's PA program. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. He interned at the Internal Medicine and Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and also at Cincinnati General Hospital and Boston City Hospital. Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH is the largest Hospital of Longwood Medical and Academic Area, in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston Medical Center ( BMC) is a Non-profit 581-bed medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. His educational philosophy placed emphasis on knowing how to look up information for "just in time" delivery rather than memorizing volumes of information only to forget it before needed. The niche that he envisioned for PAs was that most health care encounters do not require extensive training and that superior medical care can be delivered by relieving the burden of mundane medical encounters by training PA professionals to know when to seek additional input. Health care is the prevention treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental health through the services offered by the medical, Nursing He wanted all PAs to be required to have mentoring relationships with Physicians to ensure access to a larger body of medical knowledge. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health

Beliefs

Dr. Stead had high hopes for distance education in medical education. Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the Pedagogy and Andragogy, technology and instructional systems design He believed and talked regularly about the "politics of medical education" and believed that distance education could replace the first two years of medical school. After studying at home and passing national boards, he believed that medicine could be taught in the clinics and offices of private practices. While he worked and helped build the medical education institutions, he had some disdain for the way they practiced and acted as gatekeepers to the medical profession.

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