Henry K. Silver (1918–1991) was an American pediatrician who influenced the early development of the physician assistant and nurse practitioner roles in the United States.
The program, designed to mitigate a physician shortage, initially awarded bachelor's degrees.
[4] The program's first nine graduates, who were all female and who were initially known as child care associates, began to practice in clinics and hospitals in 1972.
[5] Silver coined the term deprivation dwarfism to describe stunted child growth in spite of voracious eating.
Eighty percent of the students in the study reported incidents of mistreatment during medical school.