LibraryGuides: Physician Assistant/Associate: General Resources for PA

The PA Student's Guide to the Clinical Year - 7 Volume Set

The Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year by Maureen A.Knechtel
ISBN: 9780826195210
Publication Date: 2019
Written by PA educators experienced in these specialty areas, this first-of-its-kind series covers all 7 clinical rotations including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Behavioral Health. Brimming with pithy information on the precise knowledge and duties required of a physician assistant, you will learn about practice settings, equipment, exam techniques, frequently encountered disease entities, commonly ordered studies and medications, procedures, and more! Small enough to fit in your lab coat pocket for on-the-spot reference, each consistently organized guide delivers brief bulleted content with handy tables and figures to promote quick learning and retention. You'll also find useful examples of pertinent documentation for each specialty along with clinical pearls that deliver savvy pointers from the experts. Key Features: Delivers a pocket-size overview of the precise knowledge and duties required for each clinical rotation Offers consistently organized, quick-access, bulleted content for all seven rotations Describes common clinical presentations, disease entities, and procedures Presents key diagnostic studies and their indications Reflects the 2019 NCCPA PANCE blueprint Includes bonus digital chapters with guided case studies to help reinforce clinical reasoning and rotation exam-style questions with remediating rationales Set includes: The Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year: Family Medicine Internal Medicine Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Surgery OB/GYN Behavioral Medicine

Platforms

Medscape Reference
Profiles of diseases and disease-specific topics, created and maintained by contributing physicians. Free registration required.

AccessMedicine
A comprehensive online medical resource that includes an extensive multimedia library, differential diagnosis tool, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests, quick medical Dx & Rx, self-assessment, integrated drug database, patient education, and cases.
ClinicalKey
Contains Elsevier's medical and surgical content in one interface with access to over 1100 books, over 500 journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.
TDS Health
This platform includes STAT!Ref, a digital library of healthcare textbooks; EBMcalc; several pharmacology videos; and other medical reference resources. Drug information, psychiatry, and obstetrics are especially well represented.
Clinical Pharmacology
A resource for evidence-based drug research, including monographs, an interaction checker, patient education materials, and more.

Access Medicine

Clinical Key

Stat!Ref

5-Minute Clinical Consult 28th ed 2020
3 simultaneous users
Decker: Medicine (was Scientific American Medicine)
Decker: Surgery (was Scientific American Surgery)
Merck Manual Professional Version
3 simultaneous users

External Recommended Resources

OnlineMedEd
r/PhysicianAssistant
Picmonic
Free or paid subscription, provides mnemonic study aids
Osmosis
Videos for medical school review
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Requires subscription, can subscribe as a group

Additional Reading

Becoming a Purpose-Driven Physician Assistant: a helpful and entertaining guide to making the most of your career by Rachel Allain Jurgenson, MS, PA-C Wondering what's next in your PA career? The Purpose-Driven Physician Assistant is a guide directed toward new graduate and established PAs who are wanting to be productive, successful, organized, and purposeful in their career, or those who are interested in the ins and outs of this highly sought after profession. You will learn: What to do when you first get out of training-that's right, there's a plan.Taking care of yourself-oh it's in here.Negotiating that dream PA job-I got ya covered. Working with doctors, staff and patients, I have a few ideas up my sleeve. Want to get home on time-I can help Marie Kondo your day.Wondering what you can do with this career you have worked so hard for? There are so many amazing possibilities for you. This book is a fun guide with useful information to immediately implement within your practice. And you can totally laugh at my expense!
ISBN: 9798579118189
Publication Date: 2020-12-14
Old Man on Campus: A middle-aged engineer blunders into medicine, goes back to college at 58, and becomes a physician assistant by Barry Brownstein You blunder into the grand opening of a new hospital, sign up to volunteer and, with considerable reluctance, let yourself be assigned to the ER. What starts as a Monday evening lark eventually becomes a life-changing experience. Your new course leads from the ER to becoming a volunteer EMT and, later, a paramedic and a perennial night school student. Eventually, at an age when others might be thinking of retiring to play golf, you quit your job, move away from home, and go back to college as a physician assistant student with strangers less than half your age. This book details the often humorous experience that follows from a perspective that hopefully will help others follow their own paths, whatever they may be. Along the way, new experiences evoke old memories, while new friends, teachers, and patients teach important new lessons. The book comes full circle with a view of what it is like to be a PA, one of U.S. News & World Report's "50 hottest careers."
ISBN: 9781479372096
Publication Date: 2013-02-18
Through the Eyes of a Young Physician Assistant by Sean Conroy Sean Conroy started his career in the lab, but had a burning desire to enter the clinical side of medicine as a physician assistant. After completing the first two years of book work, he spent a year learning from doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others on the front lines of medicine in hospitals and clinics across the state of Nebraska. He entered his first family practice rotation as a well-spoken but inexperienced PA student, and in under a year was bedside with severely ill and injured patients in one of Nebraska's busiest level-one trauma centers.This memoir follows Conroy around the state, from one rotation to another, as he grows in knowledge and maturity. It tells the tales (some humorous, some harrowing, and occasionally heartbreaking) of patient encounters in wide variety of settings with individuals from all walks of life. From the delivery of a newborn, to the terminally ill at the end of their lives, and many in between, Through the Eyes of a Young Physician Assistant will leave you laughing and crying and with a deeper appreciation of PAs.
ISBN: 9781941799277
Publication Date: 2016-05-14