Physician Assistant’s Guide to Research and Medical Literature
February 11, 2014 - Comment
This user-friendly guide to research for physician assistants (PAs) and PA students offers practical advice on the value of research in practice, how to go about engaging in research while in a practice, and how to evaluate it. It also covers how and where to get published, and includes worksheets.
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The PA Guide to Research and Medical Literature I reviewed “Physician Assistant’s Guide to Research and Medical Literature”, Edited by J. Dennis Blessing, PhD, PA-C, with a forward by Donald M Pederson, PhD, PA. Many well known and respected PA educators and clinicians authored chapters including James Cawley, Roderick Hooker, Robert Jarski, Eugene Jones, Marvis Lary, Anthony Miller, and Richard Rahr. It will be valuable to the new PA researcher and student and as an adjunct for more advanced investigators. I was so impressed with the title and authors of this text, that I ordered it before it became available for distribution. I received it in January of this year and found it to be far better than I had hoped. I was in the process of finishing a draft of a literature review for presentation to the medical staff when it arrived. With this text as my guide, I re-reviewed my literature citations for validity and found a number of items that were not worthy of inclusion in my final paper. I have a number of college level…