Research Guides: Physician Assistant : Finding Articles

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AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
References to and full text of sources in nursing and allied health disciplines, such as diet, nutrition, physical and occupational therapies. (1982-present).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed, structured reviews by groups of experts in over 40 clinical specialties who authoritatively review hundreds of studies on topics in their specialty, select those that meet strict EBM criteria, and perform "meta-analyses" when possible on all the included studies.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
Health & medical citations & abstracts (1990-present).
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Health & medical information primarily from MEDLINE.

Health Science Databases

AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
Contains leading pharmacy textbooks, NAPLEX review questions, a multimedia library, drug therapy cases, and more.
Anatomy.tv This link opens in a new window
Anatomy.Tv’s Communications Disorder Package is an innovative and medically accurate interactive 3D atlas and clinical reference, making the perfect learning and teaching resource for communication disorder educators, students, and practitioners. This package contains four highly detailed and medically accurate titles which will provide you with everything you need to teach, learn, and practice.
CareNotes This link opens in a new window
Contains 5,000 (2,500 English/2,500 Spanish) customizable documents addressing patient condition, treatment, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial issues, continuing health, and the most frequently administered drugs.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Citations & some full-text articles form journals in many medical disciplines, especially nursing and allied health.
Nursing Reference Center This link opens in a new window
This resource center for nurses contains Continuing Education Modules on 1300+ topics; information on diseases and conditions, drug information, best practice guidelines, and other topics; handouts designed for patient education; and more.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text to over 600 Elsevier journals in science, business, engineering and medicine (1995-present). Includes backfile of 43 psychology journals dating from 1936.
Elsevier prohibits the use of artificial intelligence in combination with this product.

Trip Database
Open Access. Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content with a motto of ‘Find evidence fast’ and this is something they aim to deliver for every single search.

Psychology Databases

DSM-5 This link opens in a new window
Located within the Psychiatry Online database.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
Citations for various measurement instruments, such as questionnaires, or rating scales, in the health or psychosocial science fields (1985-present).
Mental Measurements Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Full-text test descriptions & reviews from Buros Institute (1989-present).
PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new window
Web-based portal that includes DSM-5 and The American Journal of Psychiatry as well as other standard psychiatric reference works from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
References to sources in psychology & related fields (1887-present).

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