Physician Assistants Books

A Comprehensive Review for the Certification and Recertification Examinations for Physician Assistants: Published in Collaboration with AAPA and PAEA (formerly APAP), 3e

Claire Babcock O'Connell

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

PANCE 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This is all I used to study for the PANCE and it was worth every penny. I read several reviews that were not recommending this book but I strongly disagree. I paid a lot of money and attended a course in Chicago and I actually got more from reading this book. To be honest I read the book before I attended the review and learned nothing new at the review. Save your money on the course and buy this book.

Editorial Review:

Developed and endorsed by the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), this comprehensive review book offers the most thorough preparation for the NCCPA examinations. The book features review material, test questions, and detailed explanations covering the critical content areas on the certification (PANCE) and recertification (PANRE and Pathway II) examinations. This Third Edition includes thoroughly updated content, new test questions, and new chapters on geriatrics, pediatrics, and surgery. A 300-question pre-test and a 300-question post-test which simulate the NCCPA exams and incorporate the PAEA's GRADRAT self-assessment exam are provided both on a bound-in CD-ROM and online at thePoint.

Getting Into the Physician Assistant School of Your Choice

Andrew J. Rodican

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

New Applying to PA School Book Available 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

My wife read this book when applying to PA school, but was dissapointed that it had not been updated for many years. After completing and subsequently teaching in PA school, she wrote her own book on applying to PA school, which she recently listed on Amazon: An Applicant's Guide to Physician Assistant School and Practice.

While she would not foist her book on anyone, I have no such reservations. After reading her book (many times), I highly recommend checking out her book in addition to Mr. Rodican's.

Editorial Review:

Give PA applicants a competitive edge.

The best resource for anyone considering this career.

Getting Into the PA School of Your Choice, 2/e is a precise blueprint that addresses every step of the application process, including what schools look for in an applicant, financial aid, Internet resources, and information on PA programs.

*How to select a PA program
*Setting and achieving goals
*Comments, suggestions, and tips from current PA students
*Trends in PA programs- including excerpts from "PAs in the field" and salary profiles
*Expert advice on effective letters of recommendation Writing a quality essay-including sample “essays that worked”
*Interview strategies- including the toughest questions and answers
*Advice and contacts for financial aid
*Key web sites and Internet resources

Lange Q&A for the Physician Assistant (Lange Q&a)

Anthony A. Miller, Albert F. Simon

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - FOR TOP SCORES ON NCCPA PANCE AND PANRE EXAMS

No other book prepares you for physician assistant certifying and recertifying exams as efficiently and thoroughly as this one! Lange Q&A Physician Assistant gives you more than 1,200 board-format questions, covering all subjects on the NCCPA exams. You also get correct answers to each question, and detailed paragraph-length explanations and resources for further study. This review book in the popular Lange Q&A series offers unparalleled preparation for the PANCE and PANRE exams.

Includes comprehensive Practice Test for accurate self-assessment and simulation of the exam experience

THE MOST TIME-EFFECTIVE TUTOR FOR PA CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION EXAMS

Lange Q&A Physician Assistant is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date review available.

FEATURES

Comprehensive, current, and user-friendly

1,200+ board-format questions based on the NCCPA Blueprint

Questions cover every topic on the exams

Answers go beyond saying what's correct-you also get explanations and resources for every question

Up-to-date for today's exams

New diagnostic images and EKGs

Complete 220-question practice test that mirrors the certification exam

Prentice Hall Health Outline Review for the Medical Assistant (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall SUCCESS! Series)

Marsha Perkins Hemby

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Review for Medical Assistant 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Thorough manual with review questions. Good preparation for the medical assistant exam. Requirement for MA programs.

Medical Assistant help guide 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

A couple of items in one chapter were incorrect and I was a bit confused about the correctness of the statement and facts. Otherwise, not a bad choice of workbooks. It is a required item for the online course I registered to take.

Boost Your Scores, Launch Your Career! 5 out of 5 stars.
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"ABOUT THE BOOK
Outline Review for the Medical Assistant by Marsha Perkins Hemby is an indispensable resource for helping you prepare for the certification exam.

Organized by the key content areas within medical assisting, the book blends its comprehensive collection of clear, concise information with the exciting possibilities of computer technology.

As you build confidence by digging into this rich content review, you'll find that the Prentice Hall Health test preparation system is a blueprint for success across the boards.

BOOST YOUR SCORE, LAUNCH YOUR CAREER!
Our technology solutions allow you to gain more practice and review.....
load the CD-ROM that accompanies this book to find additional questions, rationales, and links to related resources.

The CD-ROM includes an audio glossary and more than 400 questions."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Perkins Hemby, BA, RN, CMA, is chair of the medical assisting department of Pitt Community College in Greenville, NC where she has been teaching since 1972."
[from the book of the backcover]

Editorial Review:

For courses in medical assisting or as a review for the AAMA or AMT certifying exams. This easy-to-follow study guide prepares students for the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) and Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) certification examinations. Using an outline format, it reviews, briefly but thoroughly, critical areas of medical assisting.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and RMA Certification (Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and Rma Certification)

Helen J Houser, Janet R Sesser

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Using this book...I Passed!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Very detailed and precise, yet easy to understand information. Highly recommend it to anyone preparing to take the CMA or RMA exams. I passed my RMA exam with a high score. If you want to pass those exams, get this book! I commend the authors, they know what MA students need to know to pass those tests.

Editorial Review:

This medical assisting certification exam review book was primarily designed to prepare the medical assisting candidate to successfully pass a national medical assisting certification examination. The authors who have years of experience working in health care education struggled to find a product that was up to date, comprehensive yet concise and engaging. They also looked for a book that helped the student with study strategies, a mechanism to identify their strengths and weaknesses and develop a realistic study plan. Unable to find a book that met these needs, the authors wrote the LWW Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and RMA Certification. This text incorporates all those features in a "Keep it Simple Yet Effective" approach that includes humor and motivational strategies. It also offers valuable advice for organizing and maintaining an effective study group.

Appleton & Lange Outline Review for the Physician Assistant Examination

Albert F. Simon, Anthony A. Miller, Albert Simon, Anthony Miller

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great PANCE prep 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Quite a bit of info in here. Sure, some zebras, but the answers are usually pretty short and sweet. I made a ton of notecards from the questions that I didn't know.

I used the purple book, this one, and the Kaplan PANCE prep book over the course of a month. I read every page, read every question, took every quiz of each book and did fine on the PANCE last week.

Concise and succulent 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book is concise. It is organized in an easy to study format and pulls the most important facts to the forefront.

Great Review Book 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I loved this book to study for end-of clinical rotation exams as well as boards. It is a general overview when you want a quick refresher, and has plenty of room in the margins to write notes. I got the outline review in combination with the Q&A book and feel they were very beneficial. I still pull out the outline review book every so often now that I am a practicing PA-C.

Editorial Review:

Written by PAs for PAs, this best-selling review gives graduating PA students rapid access to the facts they need to study for the NCCPA PANCE certifying examination and PANRE recertifying examination. Features a review of essential exam topics, a concise overview of diseases, and an easy-to-follow outline format that follows the NCCPA exam format. Perfect for certification or recertification.

Lange Instant Access: Hospital Admissions (Lange Instant Access)

Anil M. Patel

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The most convenient, quick-access admissions guide available, packed with clinical facts, figures, and data you will refer to again and again

Concise yet complete, this indispensable resource is filled with not-to-be-missed details for admissions orders and the management of newly admitted patients. Hospital Admissions delivers accurate evidence-based data covering the most common diseases and conditions you will encounter in the hospital, making it an ideal at-a-glance resource for all physicians and students writing or learning admitting orders.

Features:

• All the clinical essentials you require for admitting new patients to the medical units-right in the palm of your hand!
• Clear tabular format takes you right to the information you need, helping you to avoid wasting valuable time searching for answers
• Easy-to-follow, consistent template for all tables, consisting of: disposition, monitoring, diet, fluids, oxygen requirements, Dx studies, prophylaxis, consult service, nursing, and medications
• Includes free PDA download for even more ease-of-use and greater convenience

Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies (Medical Assisting: Administrative & Clinical Competencies)

Lucille Keir, Barbara A. Wise, Connie Krebs, Cathy Kelley-Arney

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Book 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

My oldest daughter is going to school and she uses the book. It helps her out as the class will not allow her to bring the book home from class and she is greatful that I had gotten it for her. She is also helping some of her classmates by making copies for them.

my medical assistant book 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Love it! :)

it was brand new when i recieved it
and there the book even brought the cd that came along with it

amazing price would of cost me ALOT more at the school bookstore

Editorial Review:

The Medical Assisting universe consists of approximately 115,000 students. There are 170 institutions accredited by ABHES, 497 accredited programs by CAAHEP.

Physician Assistant Board Review: Certification and Recertification with online exam simulation

James Van Rhee

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

I'd like to give this 5 stars but ... 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I'd like to give this 5 stars but I can't because of some sloppy editing - crainial nerves misordered in the index, review questions presented before the topic is covered or answers not provided within the content of the review material. While I caught some or perhaps all of these errors, the frustration is that you have lingering doubts as to whether or not what you are learning is correct or not throughout the book - call it a lack of trust. This means that you have to cross reference the material eg the table of myocardial infarctions with other references to see if the information is good (it was good in this instance). Time that could have been spent just sucking in the information instead of verifying it.

So this keeps it from getting 5 stars. Now the rest of the story. The ordering sequence follows the PANCE outline quite accurately, which is exceptionally nice. The second part of the outline is only briefly mentioned in the index and could have been discussed in more detail IMO.

I also purchased Auth's book, Physician Assistant Review 3. In a head to head comparison, this book wins hands down and the Auth book comes in a distant second and ultimately was hardly used.

I purchased close to $1k of new medical books to review for this exam. Of all of them, this was the single most useful book. I literally wore the book out to where I had to restaple the book back together. Not a fault of the binder I suppose, but of the amount of use it received.

This book is the single most succint source of information for covering the required information out there. But it goes beyond that. Even if you were not studying for the PANCE exam, this is one of the most information packed sources of knowledge on general medicine I've seen.

I would strongly recommend using this book with a good medical dictionary alongside as many terms used are not defined. In practice, this forced me to do more work, but made the definitions of terms reinforced and expanded my medical vocabulary in the process.

So even though I have to reluctantly give it a 4 star rating for editorial quality, because of the exceptional quality of the content of this book, I consider it a superb book, one that should be bought both for the exam and as a reference afterwards.

I did not have a chance to use the online resources, so I can't comment on that for this review.

Editorial Review:

Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, you understand how important obtaining and maintaining your certification is. Written by a Physician Assistant educator and director of an annual PANCE/PANRE board review program, this new interactive study guide embodies the practice-makes-perfect philosophy by offering you hundreds of questions along with the quickest and most thorough review of the material tested in PANCE and PANRE.

• Features questions on each page and at the end of every chapter - recall as you read helps you recall the information later on.
• Provides thorough explanations to strengthen your understanding of the rationale behind every answer. Incorporates extensive tables, charts, and photos to enhance learning and preparation.
• Includes access to a web site where you can take a 300-question, timed simulation of the Boards and score yourself to check your results

Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2007 (Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment)

Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, Lawrence M. Tierney

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Editorial Review:

CURRENT MEDICINE IN THE RIGHT DOSE: exactly what you need to know for optimum patient care - in exactly the right amount of information

Comprehensive in its coverage of inpatient and outpatient care, and uniquely accessible in reinforcing only those diagnostic and treatment tools pertinent to your practice, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment is the ultimate clinical companion. Turn to any topic, and you'll find on-the-spot answers to your questions for both hospital and ambulatory medicine. This streamlined, authoritative reference gets you up to speed-fast-on the latest medical advances, prevention strategies, cost-effective treatments, and more. No wonder it's the most popular annually updated text in internal medicine!

Know what the experts know-and make it part of your practice!

• Completely revised Renal, Hypertension, and Cancer sections
• Updates of all topics to reflect the most current epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis and treatment recommendations
• Expanded coverage of symptoms in the Common Symptoms chapter, which features a system- and evidence-based approach
• A-to-Z overview of primary care topics from gynecology and neurology to toxicology and urology
• Only text with an annual review of HIV treatment advances
• “Essentials of Diagnosis” for each disease/disorder
• “When to Admit” and “When to Refer” guidelines
• Hundreds of drug treatment tables, with indexed trade names and updated prices
• Annotated recent references