Welcome to the PA Studies Library Guide
Welcome! This guide will introduce selected Library resources of interest to our Physician Assistant Studies students and faculty.
Your Librarian for the PA Program is Virginia Young, Health Sciences Librarian. Please contact her with any questions or suggestions!
Complete the Orientation Checklist
Complete the steps below during your first week in the program to maximize the resources freely available to you!
1. Bookmark Physician Assistant Subject Guides:
2. Create a free "MyAccess" Account:
- Open Access Medicine. From off campus, a Library login is required (Le Moyne email username and password).
- Click on "Le Moyne College" on the drop-down button in the upper right-hand corner of any page.
- Click on Sign in or Create a Free MyAccess Profile.
- Download mobile app (subset of diagnostic tools).
- Login to the app using your MyAccess username and password.
3. Create a personal PA Exam Prep account while on campus. This will enable you to login from off campus and also install the mobile app.
4. Create a free DynaMed Account:
- Open DynaMed. From off campus, a Library login is required.
- Click on the circle in the upper right navigation bar to create a personal EBSCO/DynaMed account.
- Download the app.
- Sign in to the app with the username and password you created for your EBSCO/DynaMed account.
What is the AccessMedicine Collection?
Be sure to create a MyAccess account to create Flashcards and track review progress!
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowOn-campus link to the database
AccessMedicine is a comprehensive online medical resource including textbooks, a multimedia library of examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules, audio files, and animations, and quick reference tools.
Find all McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine textbooks in library's catalog
- AccessNeurology This link opens in a new windowOn-campus link to the database
AccessNeurology is a comprehensive online neurology resource that covers the entire spectrum of neurology from the basics to specialty-specific content.
Find all McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine. Neurology collection textbooks in library's catalog - AccessPediatrics This link opens in a new windowOn-campus link to the database
AccessPediatrics is a comprehensive online pediatric resource that provides instant access to information essential for completing evaluation, diagnosis, and case management decisions in pediatrics.
Find all McGraw-Hill's AccessPediatrics textbooks in library's catalog
Link to Clinical Resources
Guide to Clinical Documentation by
Understand the when, why, and how! Here's your guide to developing the skills you need to master the increasing complex challenges of documenting patient care. Step by step, a straightforward 'how-to' approach teaches you how to write SOAP notes, document patient care in office and hospital settings, and write prescriptions. You'll find a wealth of examples, exercises, and instructions that make every point clear and easy to understand. See what practitioners and students are saying online... Definitely worth the purchase."This is a guide which will stay with you during your whole nursing program...so do not rent you must buy it and think of it as a documentation bible!"--Barbie Great resource for NP/PA school."Purchased this for my NP program. The book made writing SOAP notes and H&Ps very simple! Would recommend as a great resource"--Dr. Jon Love this! "Right down to it charting instructions and guidance. Even discusses codes and other factors of charting I had not taken into such deep account before. ... this book helped me understand how much more charting, other than SOAP's, must be completed for compliance standards. I feel this book is for just about everyone who is learning to chart as a reimbursable provider. --D. Conley
Call Number: Print and ebook (single user) versions availableISBN: 9780803666627Publication Date: 2018-08-16
- NEJM Clinical Guideline WatchThe most clinically relevant guidelines summarized and put into context for you by NEJM Journal Watch editors.
- USPSTF RecommendationsCreated in 1984, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, and preventive medications. All recommendations are published on the Task Force’s Web site and/or in a peer-reviewed journal.
- USPSTF ePSS Web and App versionsThe Prevention TaskForce (formerly ePSS) application assists primary care clinicians to identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients.