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Study for the PANCE: Physician Assistant National Certification Exam

Peterson's Test and Career Prep: PA Exam
Prepare for the PANCE Exam to receive your PA certification. The exam measures expertise in anatomy, pharmacology, diagnostics, patient care, and disease management. Create a personal account to get started.

Health Sciences Videos

Health Sciences Video Collection
Includes thousands of videos on topics including anatomy, laboratory skills, medical imaging, genetic testing, fall prevention, medication errors, patient care guides, and much more.

Selected Journals for Physician Assistant Studies

More Medical Science Journals

PA Information Sources

MEDLINE with Full Text
Citations and abstracts for articles from international biomedical journals, 1949 to present, with full-text for 1,460 journals.

What's the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?
Title List
Micromedex

Tools for drug ID and interaction, IV compatibility, toxicology, drug comparison and more. Turn off pop-up blocker for correct functioning.

Dosing, lab, and clinical calculators are available, along with patient drug and disease handouts in multiple languages and patient talking points for clinicians.
Mobile content available
Micromedex user guide (pdf)
PubMed
Freely accessible database of over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books, with full-text links to MTSU-subscribed content.

Includes links to full-text articles at several thousand journal web sites as well as to most of the articles in PubMed Central. PubMed User Guide
Fact Sheet: What's the Difference Between MEDLINE, PubMed and PubMed Central?
What is the connection between PubMed Central and PubMed?
STAT!Ref (Medical and Nursing E-books)

22 nursing and medical e-books, including Stedman's Medical Dictionary and Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. Limited to 10 or 15 concurrent users, depending on book title. Mobile App Available

Mobile App Instructions (pdf)
Contents:
Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing
Foundations of Nursing Research
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
ICD-10-CM: Clinical Modification
ICD-10-PCS: Procedure Coding System
AAFP Conditions A to Z
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
EBMcalc
Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills
High Acuity Nursing
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses
Lippincott's Manual of Nursing Practice
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Reasoning in Patient Care
Merck Manual Consumer Version
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Sparks and Taylor's
Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families
Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
UpToDate
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource for healthcare practitioners. Register a personal account for remote access. This resource is not available to library visitors.

You must register a personal account to bookmark content and use the app remotely. Use your MTSU email address when registering a personal account. On subsequent UpToDate sign-ins, use the account username you created (do not use the SSO option).

App instructions:
1. Access UpToDate and register for a personal account.
2. Download UpToDate app from Play Store or Apple App Store.
3. Install app and enter account information. See video for demonstration.

Personal Account Re-verification
You must use a Web browser (not the app) and the library's UpToDate link to sign in to your personal account once every 90 days.

Quick Start Videos
Quick Reference Card
UpToDate Pathways and Lab Interpretation guide
Cochrane Library
Medical reviews, clinical trials, and more.

Subject Guide

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Subjects: Physician Assistant Studies

R2 Digital Library

Note: Books are single-user access. The second user trying to open a book will see a message that all user licenses are in use and to try again later.

R2 Digital Library (Rittenhouse)
eBook platform for health science collections featuring a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks.

See website for a list of publishers in R2 Digital Library.
Note: Users may print sections of any resource on the platform. To comply with publishers’ copyright policies, if a resource receives more than 60 print requests or 20% of the total number of HTML pages that comprise the resource on the R2 Digital Library over a 24 hour period, then print functionality will be temporarily suspended for that resource. Users will receive a notification upon crossing the 75% threshold of allowable print requests.