The Physician Assistant (PA) Profession Exam 1 Practice

The key fact is the timeline of the first Physician Assistant program. The Duke program that created the PA profession began in 1965, aimed at training experienced corpsmen as physician assistants. The first class completed their training and graduated two years later, in 1967, marking the inaugural PA graduation. So 1967 is correct because it represents the completion year of the very first PA cohort. The other years aren’t correct because 1965 is when the program started, not when graduates finished; 1963 is before the program existed; 1969 is after the first graduation.