"Physician Assistants: Collaboration & Care," A National Library of Medicine Exhibit

Physician Assistant, 7th Edition, helps you master all the core competencies needed for physician assistant certification, recertification, and clinical practice. It remains the only textbook that covers all aspects of the physician assistant profession, the PA curriculum, and the PA's role in clinical practice.

Explore the past, present, and future of PA practice. The authors, noted educators, researchers, and practitioners, draw on extensive research to trace the evolution of the PA's roles and responsibilities in the delivery of health care services. Their presentation of historical content balanced with discussions of the ethical, educational, legislative, and economic forces that are shaping that the profession makes this a contemporary classroom tool for PA's learning their field and their roles.

Physician Assistants as Social Innovators in Healthcare presents the history of the PA profession as a social innovation that has changed and improved the way medical, surgical and preventive health care services are delivered. The book explores the transformations that have taken place over the past 55 years to ensure that the PA innovation continues to meet societal needs for effective, efficient, and affordable health care services.

The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their surgery rotation.