FIRST LINE GUIDE: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL MEDICINE

Discover the ultimate resource for students with the First Line Guide. Crafted by experienced PA and medical educators, this guide bridges the gap between exhaustive textbooks and superficial study guides. Comprehensive yet concise, it is an indispensable tool for students throughout their education and into their clinical practice. Why Choose First Line Guide? Designed by PAs, Adopted by All: Developed with the PA curriculum in mind, the First Line Guide aligns with ARC-PA standards, ensuring you have all the critical information for your didactic and clinical medicine courses, and the PANCE exam. Following the success of the first edition with PA students and faculty, the second edition has gained a strong following among Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students and medical students. Comprehensive Coverage: Organized by body system, this guide offers an in-depth, head-to-toe foundation, covering hundreds of clinical conditions, including pathophysiology, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment options. High-Yield Information: Ideal for both quick reference and detailed study, this book provides high-yield information that students can use to review for exams and reference during their clinical practice. Student-Friendly Features: Where medical education is often overly complicated, medical conditions in the First Line Guide are simplified and made easily digestible. Key points and the topics most likely to be tested on are highlighted and placed in a review box above each condition for easy review before exams.

Features

• Current ARC-PA Standards: Reflects the latest competencies and standards required for clinical medicine courses.

  Professional Practice: Unique to First Line Guide, an entire chapter is dedicated to professional practice, a topic that comprise 5% of the PANCE. First Line Guide’s professional practice chapter is frequently used as the template for many PA programs courses on the subject. 

• PANCE Blueprint Coverage: Includes all clinical topics on the NCCPA PANCE blueprint and more, ensuring you’re fully prepared for your certification exam.

  Rich Visuals and Resources: More than 300 full-color illustrations, dozens of algorithms, and 600 tables and boxes facilitate learning and retention.

• Lifelong Learning: Useful beyond graduation, this book remains a valuable reference for clinical practice, ensuring you retain critical information throughout your career. First Line Guide has become a standard for PAs studying for their PANRE, and as a real-time reference book for the PANRE-LA.

• Who Should Use This Book?

  PA, FNP and Medical Students: The one book you’ll need for both your didactic and clinical education.

  New Graduates: A valuable resource for those entering clinical practice, providing guidance on managing chief complaints and patient care.

  Practicing PAs, NPs and Physicians: An ongoing reference for lifelong learning and clinical excellence.