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Resources for the Physician Assistant Program

Getting Started

Family Practice Guidelines by Jill C. Cash; Cheryl A. Glass; Jenny Mullen
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
Saunders/Elsevier, 2013
Physician Assistant: a Guide to Clinical Practice by Ruth Ballweg; Darwin Brown; Daniel Vetrosky; Tami S. Ritsema
6th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2018

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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.

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Your Online Textbooks Summer 2021

MPA 507-Research Methods

Introduction to Health Research Methods : A Practical Guide by Kathryn H. Jacobsen
3rd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2020.
Statistics in Plain English by Timothy C. Urdan
4th ed., Taylor and Francis, 2016

MPA 513 - Diagnostic Skills & Procedurews II

Learning Radiology : Recognizing the Basics by William Herring
4th ed., Elsevier, 2020

MPA 514 - Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics II

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology by Bertram G. Katzung; Anthony J. Trevor
Call Number: RES QV 4 B311 2018
14th ed. 2018.
1 copy on Reserve
Also available online. Click on title.
Advanced Pharmacology for Prescribers by Brent Luu (Editor); Gerald Kayingo (Editor); Virginia McCoy Hass (Editor)
Springer Publishing Companhy, 2021.
Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics by Randa Hilal-Dandan; Bjorn Knollman; Laurence Brunton
13th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2017

MPA 520 - Principles of Surgery & Emergency Medicine

Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: a Comprehensive Study Guide by Judith E. Tintinalli; David M. Cline; O. John Ma; Garth D. Meckler; J. Stephan Stapczynski; Donald Yealy; Stephen H. Thomas
9th ed., McGraw-Hill. 2020.

MPA 643 - Principles of Medicine III

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Two volume set. by J. Larry Jameson; Dan L. Longo; Stephen L. Hauser; Dennis L. Kasper; Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci
20th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018
Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics by Barbara Resnick; Robert L. Kane; Joseph G. Ouslander; Michael L. Malone
8th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018.
Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult by Amanda F. Cashen; Brian A. Van Tine
4th ed., Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016.
CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment : Pediatrics by Mark J. Abzug; Myron J. Levin; William W. Hay; Maya Bunik
25th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2020..

Your Textbooks - Fall 2020

MPA 500 - Pathophysiology

Pathophysiology of Disease : An Introduction to Clinical Medicine by Gary D. Hammer; McPhee, Stephen J.
8th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2019.

MPA 501 - Human Anatomy

Human Anatomy, Color Atlas and Textbook by John A. Gosling; Philip F. Harris; John R. Humpherson; Ian Whitmore; Peter L. T. Willan
6th ed., Elsevier, 2016.

MPA 512 - 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
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Two volume set. by J. Larry Jameson; Dan L. Longo; Stephen L. Hauser; Dennis L. Kasper; Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci
20th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018

MPA 524 - Psychosocial Dynamics in Healthcare

Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States by James Knickman; Brian Elbel
12th ed., Springer Publishing Company, 2019.
Multicultural Health by Lois A. Ritter; Nancy Hoffman; Donald H. Graham
2nd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2017.

MPA 530 - 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.

MPA 640 - Comprehensive Examination

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2022 by Maxine A. Papadakis; Stephen J. McPhee; Michael W. Rabow; Kenneth R. McQuaid
61st ed., McGraw-Hill, 2022
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Two volume set. by J. Larry Jameson; Dan L. Longo; Stephen L. Hauser; Dennis L. Kasper; Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci
20th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018

NCCPA Content Blueprint Organ Areas

MPA 643 - Principles of Medicine III

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2022 by Maxine A. Papadakis; Stephen J. McPhee; Michael W. Rabow; Kenneth R. McQuaid
61st ed., McGraw-Hill, 2022
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Two volume set. by J. Larry Jameson; Dan L. Longo; Stephen L. Hauser; Dennis L. Kasper; Joseph Loscalzo; Anthony S. Fauci
20th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2018

MPH 644 - Research Methods

Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health by Lisa M. Sullivan
3rd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2018.
Introduction to Health Research Methods by Kathryn H. Jacobsen
2nd ed., Jones & Bartlett, 2017.