In anticipation of serving physician assistants (PAs) in the future, the College library is collecting PA-specific clinical material such as ebooks, e-journals, and other formats.
These PA-specific e-journals can be accessed through the library’s journals finder:
- The Journal of Physician Assistant Education
- JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
- JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants
These are the beginning of our PA-specific ebook collection:
- Ballweg's physician assistant a guide to clinical practice. Ritsema Tamara S. et al. Elsevier, 2022.
- Essential clinical procedures. Dehn, Richard W., Asprey, David P. Elsevier, 2021. This online text includes 34 videos.
Full library services are available to physician assistants including:
- Literature searches by expert searchers
- Point-of-care tools such as DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice
- Drug information such as CPS and Martindale pharmacopeia
- High-impact journals via our website or through the Read app
- Ebooks
- Request full-text articles from library staff – including copies from the collection or acquired through interlibrary loan
- Monthly automated search results on topics of interest
To learn more about College library services and resources, view a summary on the website or watch a series of one-minute videos on the College’s online learning platform.
PAs with suggestions for material the library might acquire may can contact library staff by webform, emailing medlib@cpsbc.ca, or calling 604-733-6671.