Physician Associate Studies

Useful links

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Physician Associate Studies

Reading Lists

Independent Research - getting started

How to identify different sources of information and links to useful books and ebooks.

Creating a search strategy

Independent Research - beyond the basics

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For some assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with. Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. This page lists key sources for your course.

• Developing advanced search strategies

How to search systematically for literature. From the initial stages of understanding your vocabulary to using advanced features in databases.

• Databases

Collections of specialist, subject specific journal literature.

• Websites and professional organisations

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• Health Talk Online

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Healthtalkonline is the award-winning website of the DIPEx charity and replaces the website formerly at dipex.org. Healthtalkonline lets you share in other people's experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people's experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

• Royal College of Nursing

• World Health Organization

• Nursing and Midwifery Council

• British Library EthOS

A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions.

• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

General pages provide country information and statistics. Investment pages of particular interest.