Find Resources: Physician Assistants

 

Your Professional Organizations

American Academy of Physician Assistants

Publisher of JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants 

National Commission on Accredition of Physician Assistants

Medical Textbooks

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th Edition, updated monthly. Available on and off campus.

Stat!Ref is a collection of fulltext medical references, including Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Rudolph's Pediatrics and a number of clinical medical textbooks.

Finding Journal Articles

PubMed, the largest database for biomedical literature, covers the major clinical journals used by PA's.

PubMed contains only citations, but USP has set it up to link to the journals we pay to subscribe for. In order to see these articles, you MUST go through the library's PubMed link.

CINAHL: Index to 1500 journals in allied health, including physician assistant. Many of these journals are not indexed in PubMed. A subscription database: many of the journals link to fulltext.

What to Do When There's No Fulltext Link

Check the library's journal list: we may have an electronic subscription; we may have a print subscription.

Get the article from another library (the fastest way).

Use ILLiad to ask us to get it for you (the library subsidizes the costs).

AskALibrarian for help...or stop at the Information Desk any day..or call 215-596-8967 weekdays.

How to Write a Reference

Check our guide.

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