Appleton & Lange Review for the Physician Assistant (Appleton & Lange Review Book Series) [Paperback]

Anthony A. Miller (Author), Albert F. Simon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071375449 | ISBN-13: 978-0071375443 | Publication Date: February 21, 2002 | Edition: 4th

Designed as a study aid to review for the Physician Assistant National Certification and Recertification Exam. It contains over 1200 questions, detailed explanations, a 200-question practice test and is packaged with a CD-ROM in the back that contains all of the questions and answers in an electronic format.

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THE #1 REVIEW FOR PA CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION
* 1200 exam-type questions
* 200-question practice test
* CD-ROM for the ultimate exam prep
* Over 75% new material
* Tips, hints, and skill-builders
* Written by physician assistant educators

Appleton & Lange’s Review for the Physician Assistant, 4e is the most time-effective tool you can find for Physician Assistant certification or recertification.
* More than 1200 Q & A’s provide a comprehensive review
* 200 question practice test for confidence-building self-assessment
* CD-ROM allows you to practice and test yourself using an electronic format
* Designed by leading physician assistant educators to simulate the actual exam
* Detailed answers and explanations reinforce learning
* Covers all internal medicine sub-specialties
* Includes valuable surgery review

The most effective way to study for the PANCE and PANRE:

This best selling Review helps you:
* Learn more in less time
* Practice with over 1200 questions
* Evaluate your areas of strength and weakness
* Reinforce knowledge, confidence, and skills
* Prepare for the questions on the actual exam

The #1 selling study aid for the Physician Assistant National Certification and Recertification Examination.
* Best selling PA review
* 1200 exam-type questions
* 200 question practice test for self assessment
* Valuable CD-ROM study-aid
* Detailed answers with references
* Comprehensive preparation for the PANCE

Great for course work and finals, too! Appleton & Lange’s Review for the Physician Assistant 4e provides the information you need in the format you want. Open it and accelerate to certification.

About the Author

Anthony A. Miller MEd PA-C is Associate Professor/Director of the Division of Physician Assistant Studies at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA

Albert F. Simon DHSc PA-C PA-C is Chairman of the Department of Physician Assistant Sciences at Arizona School of Health Science, A.T., Still University, Mesa, AZ

In addition to Appleton & Lange's Review for the Physician Assistant, they are also the authors of Appleton & Lange's Outline Review for the Physician Assistant Examination.

Product Details

• Paperback: 386 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 4th edition (February 21, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071375449
• ISBN-13: 978-0071375443
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Medical Books > Allied Health Professions > Physician Assistants

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful but not without plenty of typos and other errors, January 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Appleton & Lange Review for the Physician Assistant (Appleton & Lange Review Book Series) (Paperback)

I passed the NCCPA board exam using this book and 2 review books on Internal Medicine. I did not even review the NCCPA blueprint (which you should not do by any means). I put in a total of 4-5 weeks of good study. This book certainly covers all the terrain you will need in terms of scope. The questions are excellent and the answers are thorough enough. By the time you finish this and take the 200 Question test at the end (I scored 95% after reviewing the whole book...but would have done much worse without the former)you will certaily feel stronger with your general knowledge.

My criticism are limited to typos and mistakes in terms of right answers in the answer key. For instance you will answer "B" and the correct answer is supposedly "A"; you read through the explanation and it does NOT accord with choice"A" but in fact "B" or maybe "C". That was often the case but just reading through the answers made it obvious which choice was correct so don't give up on buying this book just because of that. Its worth the purchase. The CD was a waste of time however. It contains the identical 200Q test at the end of the book (which itself contains not new Qs but the same as those in the book, only randomly selected).

The actual test has a 30 minute computer orientation period which is not counted towards your exam time so don't worry. It is an intuitive and straightforward user interface. I took 5 minutes to know how to use it and so will you. Last comment - for a review book that supposedly prepares you for the test there was NOTHING on hypertension - go figure! GOOD LUCK!

55 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Multiple Errors throughout. Needs to be re-edited, November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Appleton & Lange's Review for the Physician Assistant (Paperback)

I initially thought the book would be quite useful. After using to prepare for the PANCE, my classmates and I found many errors in the information. There were answers which were mislabeled as well as answers which were flat out incorrect. An example is its answer to "what is the most common hernia in females", it states the answer is "femoral", which is incorrect. Femoral is more common in females, but inguinal hernias remain the most common in both sexes. At this time, this text will cause confusion in a diligent student. At worst, it will cause a student to learn incorrect information. Perhaps the next version will be more accurate.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, December 23, 2003

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Wayne Lawson "jazzlove" (San Antonio, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Appleton & Lange Review for the Physician Assistant (Appleton & Lange Review Book Series) (Paperback)

This review concerns the 4th edition. As a new graduate, I am using this text, amongst others, to prepare for the PANCE. First of all, it is a productive study tool for that purpose, but despite what Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C (one of the editors) states in an earlier review (see above), it is still littered with incorrect information. The authors state that 75% of the info is new, and maybe it is, but that doesn't alter the facts. Some of these answers and explanations really make you scratch your head frustration and disbelief. In addition, some of the sections, the pharmacolgy section in particular, are filled with irrelavent trivia. Its almost as if the author of that section was deliberately trying to impress us with his command of obscure information, not directly related to clinical practice... Also, some of the question writers insist on using the old fashioned terms for diseases or syndromes, rather than the newer term that describes the pathophyiology. Some of the sections contain very outdated clinical practice information, the pulmonary section in particular. I found the use of the term "rale" particularly annoying. It's just a small thing, but that tells me the writer is not one who keeps up with current practice.

It's really frustrating to look up all 5 answers in Current or Cecil's, find that they concur about the correct response, and then read the answer and explanation in this review and find it totally different.......

This text IS a good review for the PANCE, but only if the student is good enough to recognize the incorrect/out-of-date information and adjust their thinking accordingly. A marginal student might be led astray by this text. So buyer beware..........