Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year
The first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their internal medicine rotation
Prepare for and thrive during your clinical rotations with the series, The Physician
Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year. The Internal Medicine edition of this
seven-volume series 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 systemsbased
approach to more than 60 of the most frequently encountered disease entities
you will see, including cardiac arrhythmias, pneumonia, and hepatitis.
Distinguished by brief, bulleted content with handy tables and figures, this 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, including bone marrow aspirate and biopsy, lumbar puncture,
and thoracentesis.