Research Guides: Physician Assistant: The Physician Assistant Profession

Selection of Books from the Library

Ballweg's Physician Assistant: a Guide to Clinical Practice by Tamara S. Ritsema; Darwin L. Brown; Daniel T. Vetrosky
Call Number: eBook
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.
Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant by Barry Cassidy; J. Dennis Blessing
Call Number: eBook
Physician Assistants: Policy and Practice by Roderick S. Hooker; James F. Cawley; Christine Everett
Call Number: eBook
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 Their presentation of historical content balanced with discussions of the ethical, educational, legislative, and economic forces that are shaping that the profession makes this a contemporary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 : PAs do that! by Physician Assistant History Society
Call Number: Netter Library Circulation Stacks R697.P45 P497 2022
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 Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year: Surgery by Brennan Bowker
Call Number: Netter Test Prep Collection R37 .B695 2020
The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their surgery rotation.

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

The Netter and Arnold Bernhard Libraries in partnership with the Department of Physician Assistant Studies will host Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care, a traveling exhibit, August 26, 2024 through October 5, 2024.

The National Library of Medicine produced Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care in partnership with the Physician Assistant History Society.

The traveling banner exhibition explores how the Physician Assistant (PA) profession developed as a solution to meet the social and health care needs of the mid-20th century and continues to evolve today. Collaboration has been the foundation of the profession since the first three PAs graduated from Duke University in 1967. PAs practice medicine alongside doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals, treating patients in diverse communities and addressing health care shortages.

For more information visit the library guide for the exhibit.

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Selection of Books from the Library

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

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