Physician Assistant Studies: Didactic Semester 1

2 Minute Medicine (2MM) is an expert physician publishing group founded out of Harvard Medical School that provides concise, curated, and authoritative medical reports

BMJ Systematic Reviews summarize the current state of knowledge about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions based on appraisal of literature. BMJ Clinical Evidence can be accessed through PubMed Central, with a 2 year embargo.

The Rational Clinical Examination, Users' Guide to Medical Literature

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.

Plain language definitions of health research terms.

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. From DISCERN.org