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College of Nursing and Health Professions: Physician Assistant Program

Physician Assistant Program Information

Tutorials

Avoiding Plaigiarism
PubMed Search Basics
Evidence-based practice database videos
Presentation and videos demonstrating EBP searching in Cochrane, CINAHL, Dynamed and PsycINFO. This series also includes a presentation on PICO. A presentation demonstrating PubMed Clinical Queries is listed separately
PubMed Clinical Queries
A PubMed search tool designed to retrieve targeted results to clinical questions.
PubMed -MeSH Searching
How to use medical subject headings and PubMed Advanced searching to create a more targeted search.

Cite and keep track of sources

Citation Management Tools
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EndNote21 Citation Manager (Desktop)
LibGuide for installing, configuring and using version 21 of the EndNote Desktop Citation manager
Endnote Online
Endnote Online is the web-based version of Endnote reference management software.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Job Search Resources

Primary Databases/Resources

AccessMedicine
A collection of medical information resources. Comprised primarily of eBooks, such as Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, it also includes drug monographs, video, images, and cases.
Note: Use of some features, such as quizzes, requires setting up a personal account with AccessMedicine.
Bates' visual guide to physical examination
Videos of physical examination techniques for medical, nursing, and health sciences students.
Bates Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
ClinicalKey
Search across content in medicine and biomedical sciences. Includes books, journals, drug monographs, practice guidelines, images, and videos.
The Procedures Consult collection within ClinicalKey provides video overviews of common procedures in a variety of disciplines.
DynaMed Plus
DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool containing summaries of diseases and other topics, with information about diagnosis, treatment options, etc. All the information in DynaMed is linked back to the original articles that provided the evidence, and evidence is graded based on the quality of the study methodology and the results.
PubMed
PubMed is a database created by the National Library of Medicine to facilitate searching the biomedical literature. The MEDLINE databases found within PubMed contains journals that have been reviewed by a panel of experts for quality. PubMed also contains PMC, which contains publicly accessible literature that have not necessarily gone through the same review process.
Cochrane Library
Specialized literature in health sciences, including clinical research and healthcare. It includes the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, and databases of clinical trials, and non-Cochrane systematic reviews.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews are peer-reviewed systematic reviews that summarize and assess current research for clinical treatment decisions.

Selected Books

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking Edition 13th ed by Lynn S. Bickley; Peter G. Szilagyi; Richard M. Hoffman; Rainier P. Soriano
ISBN: 9781496398178

Publication Date: 2021

Other Suggested Databases/Resources

LWW Health Library: PA Rotations/Specialties
LWW Health Library for PA Rotations/Specialties offers a core collection of content for each of the core PA rotations in a student's second year of study in a user-friendly online portal. Users can quickly access key texts for Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry, and save chapters in PDF format for offline reading. Key general reference and exam preparation texts, including O'Connell's Comprehensive Review, as well as over 150 case studies and 4,700 Q&A are a key piece of this collection as well.
Exam Master
A prepatory testing resource appropriate for learners involved in Medicine and Physician Assistant programs. It includes questions related to biomedical and clinical sciences, as well as PANCE/PANRE items. A personal account must be created when accessing this resource.
Web of Science
Search scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Web of Science is a terrific place to begin for research in the sciences. Also includes citation analysis tools.

State Associations, Boards, and Certification

Associations and Organizations (General)

Associations and Organizations (Specialized)

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