The Physician Assistant Student’s Guide to the Clinical Year: Internal Medicine : With Free Online Access! - Softcover

Knechtel, David MPAS PA-C; Opacic, Deborah EdD PA-C

 
9780826195234: The Physician Assistant Student’s Guide to the Clinical Year: Internal Medicine : With Free Online Access!
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826195237 ISBN 13: 9780826195234
Verlag: Springer Publishing Company, 2019

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"A lifesaver - not just for PA students, but for faculty and administrators trying our best to prepare them. Perfect for students to read and use on rotation."

- James Van Rhee, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, Program Director, Yale Physician Assistant Online Program

The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their internal medicine rotation

Prepare for and thrive during your clinical rotations with the quick-access pocket guide series, The Physician Assistant Student’s Guide to the Clinical Year. The Internal Medicine edition of this 7-volume series, discounted when purchased as a full set, delineates the exact duties required in this specialty.

Written by experienced PA educators, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. It also provides a systems-based approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities you will see in this rotation, including cardiac arrhythmias, pneumonia, and hepatitis.

Distinguished by brief, bulleted content with handy tables and figures, the reference offers all pertinent laboratory and imaging studies needed to confirm a diagnosis, with medication and management guidelines. This guide also describes the most common procedures you will learn during the internal medicine rotation, including bone marrow aspirate and biopsy, lumbar puncture, and thoracentesis.

Key Features:

  • Provides a pocket-size overview of the PA internal medicine rotation
  • Describes common clinical presentations, disease entities, and procedures
  • Offers a step-by-step approach to diagnosis and treatment planning
  • Includes clinical pearls throughout
  • Complements the 2019 NCCPA PANCE blueprint
  • Includes two bonus digital chapters! Three guided case studies to reinforce clinical reasoning plus 25 rotation exam-style questions with remediating rationales
  • Includes full digital access on Springerpub Connect

Other books in this series:

The Physician Assistant Student’s Guide to the Clinical Year:

  • Family Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Surgery
  • OB-GYN
  • Pediatrics
  • Behavioral Health

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Knechtel, MPAS, PA-C, is the Clinical Coordinator at the Milligan College Physician Assistant program and a practicing PA at Pulmonary Associates of East Tennessee.



Deborah Opacic, M.M.S., EdD, PA-C, DFAAP has held clinical and academic appointments at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University and Allegheny General Hospital.



Maureen Knechtel, DMSc, PA-C, holds a Bachelor of Health Science and a Master of Physician Assistant Studies, as well as a Doctor of Medical Science with a focus in medical education. She has spent her clinical career as a physician assistant specializing in general cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. She teaches electrocardiogram (EKG) recognition and interpretation to both physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Throughout her career, she has been a guest lecturer nationally and locally on topics including EKG interpretation, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Dr. Knechtel is a fellow member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Tennessee Academy of Physician Assistants, and a Cardiovascular Team Member with the American College of Cardiology. She currently serves as academic coordinator and associate professor with the Milligan University Physician Assistant Program in northeast Tennessee.

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Verlag
Springer Publishing Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826195237
ISBN 13 
9780826195234
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
374
Herausgeber
Knechtel David, Opacic Deborah, Knechtel Maureen A. MPAS PA-C, Knechtel Maureen DMSc PA-C, Knechtel Maureen
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