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1964: Formal training and salary for physicians’ aides
Village “chemoaide” program begins training Alaska Native volunteers living in remote villages to help physicians by dispensing medicine, keeping health records, and updating traveling medical teams on health issues in their communities. Informally, Alaska Natives had participated in their health care for years, but the program provides formal training.
- Theme
- Medicine Ways
- Region
- Arctic, Northwest Coast, Subarctic
As part of her training, an Alaska Native village aide receives an explanation of her duties from a chemotherapy nurse.
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, Anchorage