Skip to Main Content

It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

Physician Assistant: Home

Resources for the Physician Assistant Program

Getting Started

Family Practice Guidelines, Fifth Edition by Jill C. Cash (Editor); Cheryl A. Glass (Editor); Jenny Mullen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780826135834
Publication Date: 2020-05-28
5th ed., Springer Publishing Company, 2021
Essential Clinical Procedures by Richard W. Dehn; David P. Asprey
4th ed., Elsevier, 2021
Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants by Sara D. Rynders; Jennifer Hart
2nd ed., Elsevier, 2022
Physician Assistant: a Guide to Clinical Practice by Ruth Ballweg; Darwin Brown; Daniel Vetrosky; Tami S. Ritsema
6th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2018

Websites

Research on the Physician Assistant profession
These pages have links to information about using survey data collected by the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Occupational Outlook Handbook--Physician Assistants
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
Links to the Instructions to Authors pages for over 3,500 journals in the health sciences.

Journals

Search for Books and E-books

Library Catalog
E-books

Professional Organizations

Chat With A Librarian

chat loading...test

Chat Hours – Beginning 8/29/22
Monday – 7:30 am – 7:00 pm
Tuesday-Thursday – 7:30 am – 8:00 pm
Friday – 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
The library will open on select weekends and the hours will be posted.
Closed University Holidays

Your online textbooks : Spring 2022

MPA 503 : Diagnostic Skills and Procedures

Guide to Diagnostic Tests by Diana Nicoll; Michael Pignone; Stephen J. McPhee; Chuanyi Mark Lu
7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2017
Rapid Interpretation of EKG's by Dale Dubin
6th ed, Cover Publishing, 2000.
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference by Kathleen Deska Pagana; Timothy J. Pagana; Theresa N. Pagana
15th ed., Elsevier, 2021.

MPA 504 : Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

Advanced Pharmacology for Prescribers by Brent Luu; Gerald Kayingo; Virginia McCoy Hass
Springer Publishing Companhy, 2021.
Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 14th Edition by Laurence Brunton; Bjorn Knollmann
14th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2023

MPA 506 : Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases by John E. Bennett; Raphael Dolin; Martin J. Blaser
9th ed., Elsevier, 2020.
Medical Microbiology by Patrick R. Murray; Ken S. Rosenthal; Michael A. Pfaller
9th ed.,Elsevier, 2021
Infectious Diseases by Jonathan Cohen; William G. Powderly; Steven M. Opal
4th ed., Elsevier, 2017.

MPA 522 : Principles of Medicine

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2022 by Maxine A. Papadakis; Stephen J. McPhee; Michael W. Rabow; Kenneth R. McQuaid
61st ed., McGraw-Hill, 2022
Bradley and Daroff's Neurology in Clinical Practice, 2-Volume Set by Joseph Jankovic; John C. Mazziotta; Scott L. Pomeroy; Nancy J. Newman
8th ed.,Elsevier, 2022.
Clinical Neurology by Roger P. Simon; David Greenberg; Michael J. Aminoff
10th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine by Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci; Dennis L. Kasper; Stephen Hauser; Dan Longo; J. Larry Jameson
21st ed., McGraw-Hill, 2022
Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease- 2 Volume Set by Mark Feldman; Lawrence S. Friedman; Lawrence J. Brandt
11th ed., Elsevier, 2021.

MPA 531 Patient History and Physical Diagnosis

Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: an Evidence-Based Method by Auguste H. Fortin; Richard M. Frankel; Robert C. Smith; Francesca C. Dwamena; Brenda L. Lepisto
4th ed., Lange/McGraw-Hill, 2019.
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn S. Bickley; Peter G. Szilagyi; Richard M. Hoffman; Rainier P. Soriano
13th ed., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2021