Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP)/Physician Assistant
Journals
Databases
Anatomy and Images
Patient Information
PCAP Competencies
Style Guides
- Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
- Online guide to scientific Publication
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
- Manage References, PDFs, & Bibliographies
Note: Refworks, EndNote, and similar software have built-in style formats and work with Microsoft Word. Some databases can produce bibliographies in several formats: e.g., Scopus results can be used to create a bibliography in APA format and Turabian.
Required Textbooks
- Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice, Ballweg, R.
- Bates: A Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking[print]
- Access Medicine
- Concise Pathology, Chandrasoma, P.
- Introduction to research and medical literature for health professionals [print]
Diagnosis and Treatment
Ethnic/Multicultural Medicine
Course Reserves
Professional Organizations
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