The Running PA

Tips for the clinical year

The beginning of rotations is coming up fast on me. I emailed the class list of students currently finishing their rotations to ask if they had recommendations on study material or apps. Here are their recs I’m sharing with you, enjoy!

Books:

• Surgical Recall
• Maxwell Quick Medical Reference
• Blueprints series
• Case Files (available as a free app for iTouch/iPad/iPhone)
• Fitzgerald’s Atlas of Dermatology
• Physician Assistant Review by Auth & Kerstein
• Emergency Medicine Red Book
• CMDT

Websites:

• FPNotebook
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/surgeryvideos.html
• http://www.mdconsult.com/books/page.do?eid=4-u1.0-B0-323-04038-1..50003-2&isbn=978-0-323-04038-9&uniqId=338737642-6#4-u1.0-B0-323-04038-1..50003-2—cesec1
• http://www.exammaster.com/
• http://www.medscape.com/
• www.pancemaster.com: costs $45 to register, but this is a collection of PANCE prep questions written by PAs to mirror the NCCPA Blueprint, they guarantee you will pass the PANCE your first time if you do all of the questions or they’ll refund your money; access until you pass your PANCE

Apps:

• AHRQ ePSS: lets you plug in your patient’s demographics to generate a list of            USPSTF screening recommendations tailored to them
• DxSaurus
• ECG Guide
• Surgery (paid)
• UptoDate (paid)
• PolyglotMed
• Blaufuss Sound Builder (full version paid)
• iAnnotate PDF (paid) lets you take permanent notes and highlight on PDF files
• ED Radiology 2.0 is a collection of CT scans and case studies to learn from (CT images move with your fingers, so cool, this was pictured on my last post)