LibGuides: Physician Assistant Studies: Didactics

Tools

2 Minute Medicine
An expert physician publishing group founded out of Harvard Medical School that provides concise, curated, and authoritative medical reports

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy This link opens in a new window
This resource contains videos to supplement and reinforce information learned in dissection and anatomy courses. More info on how to use this resource.
DynaMed This link opens in a new window
DynaMed is the decision support tool that clinicians go to for answers. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians and specialist who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis and guidance with transparent detail to assist in the clinical decision-making process. Content from Micromedex can be found in this database

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
From JAMAevidence
The Number Needed to Treat
A group of physicians developed a framework and rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms as well as a system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study.
The DISCERN Instrument
DISCERN is a brief questionnaire which provides users with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
A database of references to assessment and measurement tools and to articles and books describing their use. Tools include tests, questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Provides authoritative, concise definitions for a wide range of terms used in medicine.
Get It Glossary
Plain language definitions of health research terms.
Visual Medical Dictionary
Enter a disease, drug, or therapy name to see a visual map of related concepts.