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Career Resources for PAs and PA Students
Explore our curated list of top recommended resources for physician assistants in clinical and non-clinical roles for starting your career or switching specialties. Find specific resources for physician assistant students in both the didactic and clinical phases of their education as well!
A text well-loved by PA Jobs co-founders, this is an excellent comprehensive introduction to point-of-care ultrasound complete with descriptive texts, illustrations, and actual images to follow along. A video library and clinical case examples complete the learning experience. Highly recommend for anyone new to or looking to expand their POCUS skill set.
It's like having a pharmacist in your pocket. We love the EMRA antibiotics guides over the years - quick, easy reference guide with clear bullet points, dosing, and clinical pearls for each topic. Easily organized by organ system, this will become your helpful companion as a student, new graduate, or seasoned PA changing specialties. A must-have!
Perfect for PA students, new graduates, and seasoned PAs who need a refresher. Variety of "lacerations" to close with and ample practice suture material similar to real-life.
Great quick-reference pocket guide on all things emergency medicine. Perfect for reference on clinical rotations, new graduates, and those making the change to practice in the ER.
A more in-depth (but still pocket-sized) textbook classic for the emergency medicine student, resident/fellow, or practicing PA (both new grads and seasoned PAs).
With an astounding 89(!) short chapters, this nifty little pocket guide will cover anatomy review, H&P pearls, differential diagnosis lists, treatment, and most importantly for the urgent care provider - disposition advice on who to send to the ER vs follow-up with primary care or who needs to see the specialist.
Don't let the ICU intimidate you. Critical care PAs are important and knowledgeable team members caring for our sickest patients. This ICU survival guide is a succinct but thorough guide for students on clinical rotations, new graduates, or new to any critical care specialty PAs.
Your tiny, non-intimidating savior when it comes to learning ortho. Easy to utilize, quick-reference guide that easily fits in your slim short or long white coat pocket complete with anatomical reviews, verbiage, clinical pearls and do-not-miss diagnoses. A great starter for any PA student, new grad, or PA starting a role in orthopedic surgery!
Perfect guide made by orthopedic PAs, for orthopedic PAs (the only one!). PA students and practicing PAs interested in ortho can learn best practices, quick tips, and learn how to perform 14 procedures complete with instructional videos all in an easily digestible text.
The most comprehensive textbook you'll need to go into your Occupational Health clinic with confidence. Following basic injuries and lacerations, to toxicology, disability management, and workers' compensation. Your one-stop-shop for Occupational Health needs by one of the best medical textbook brands out there.
Quick, easy to read, high-yield pocket textbook series perfect for the clinical year PA student covering each of the core clinical rotations, emphasizing material on the PANCE Blueprint complete with clinical pearls, sample documentation, and helpful charts. Includes bonus practice questions and clinical vignettes - all you need in one place to prepare for EOREs and PANCE.
A surgery rotation classic. Tried and true over the years, a perfect concise pocket text to be prepared for all the questions the PA student will be asked on their surgery rotation from attendings, fellows, residents, and APP preceptors. We used it and thrived - and so can you.
The title says it all. Great for PA students, new graduates, and anyone practicing in surgery, ER, urgent care, family medicine or internal medicine.
Fitzpatrick is a household name in dermatology practices. Learn from the best in this impeccably accurate atlas guide for the most common and most essential dermatologic conditions you will encounter in clinical practice.
High-yield, easy-to-follow text at the perfect level for PA students, new graduates, and new-to-women's health PAs to stand out on clinical rotations and build a strong foundation for the EOR examination. Take it on rotations or on the job to review while waiting to deliver those babies.
Similar to the OB/GYN Blueprints, this is a comprehensive yet concise text for all things Pediatrics. Highly recommend to prepare for clinical rotations, EOR examinations, PANCE, and clinical practice.
Have all the knowledge, work-up, and initial treatment plans for the majority of internal medicine complaints at your fingertips from the experts at Mass Gen in this powerhouse pocket guide.
Similarly to its counterpart (Pocket Medicine for internal medicine), Pocket Primary Care is a rapid-fire pocket guide for all things a primary care provider will encounter meticulously laid out by Mass Gen experts.
Great text for Family Medicine PA students and practitioners, compiling 90 of the most common chief complaints encountered in Family Medicine laid out in a 2-page SOAP-note style format. A great little tool in a unique guide.
Written by a fellow Advanced Practice Provider, PsychNotes gives the psychiatry PA key features of the DSM-5, clinical pearls, medication reviews, and documentation tips all in a convenient pocket guide.
This is a great text for PAs going into hematology/oncology. The depth is just right for many common oncology issues that are not covered in traditional PA school curricula, yet still portable and easy to read. This was an ideal text when PA Jobs co-founder switched specialties.
Similar to the other pocket books, this is a personal favorite of PA Jobs co-founder for a small, more concise, quick-reference resource for on-the-job learning and confidence-building for PAs entering oncology. A nice little high-quality safety-blanket, if you will.
Comprehensive Review for the Certification and Recertification Examinations for Physician Assistants
Created by PA faculty experienced in helping hundreds of PA students and colleagues prepare and pass their PANCE and PANRE, this excellent review book covers high yield topics matching the exam blueprints while giving ample practice questions and tips on the side for easy recall.
The most updated version of the ever-popular review companion for PA students to prepare to crush EOR examinations and their PANCE. Practice questions galore and high-yield content that has been used by thousands of PA students over the years.
EKGs stressing you out? Perfect for students, new graduate, and practicing PAs who feel a little rusty on a commonly overwhelming topic. This text gives good explanations and easy to follow steps to read EKGs with confidence.
For over 50 years, this has been a tried-and-true staple for physicians, advanced practiced providers, and anyone who needs a solid foundational understanding of EKGs. Easy to follow and broken down for even the most intimidated EKG learner, here's a classic that taught us EKGs, too!
Prefer to learn through real-life examples? Wanting to strengthen your general cardiology/cardiovascular surgery knowledge or hone-in on electrophysiology? Then this is the text for you. Essentials of Electrophysiology & Pacing walks you through key concepts in the specialty through the use of 60 clinical case examples, making concepts stick and appear more applicable to your practice.
Our favorite classic stethoscope from a trusted brand that can be utilized by any PA student or practitioner for the better part of your career, regardless of specialty. Pick your favorite color and go save some lives.
For those PA and PA students on their feet for hours on end, take care of your own health by utilizing compression stockings that are comfortable, durable and hold up through washes with over 60,000 reviews. Plain or printed, pick what speaks to your personal style.
Another classic. Trusted by surgical, ER, hospitalist providers and nurses for many years, grab your favorite Dansko shoe for hours of comfort and easy cleaning for your every day surprises.
Giving Danskos a run for their money; meet the new kid on the block that some PAs argue are more comfortable and long-lasting than their Dansko competitors.
If you prefer tennis shoes to wipeable clogs, Hokas have us feeling like we're walking on clouds for those long shifts.
Comfortable, high-quality unisex scrub cap at an affordable price for PAs who are clocking in the hours in the OR.
Comfy, high-quality, and slimming scrub top for women available in a variety of colors and other styles.
The matching comfortable Med Couture scrub pants available in a variety of colors.
Find the perfect beloved Figs scrub top or bottom, available in many styles, sizes, and colors to fit your scrub needs!
Because can you ever take enough notes as a student, rounding, or managing your patient load? We love the spirals, and the size. Complete with a pocket for additional reminders and resources always on you.
For finding fetal heartbeats or distal pulses, this affordable pocket-size Doppler is perfect on clinical rotations and those working women's health, ER, vascular/cardiology, and hospitalist medicine.