Medical Assisting: Books, Articles and Videos

The Library search box is your starting point to find books, ebooks, DVDs, and other materials.

Medical dictionaries owned by PCC. Browse call number 610.3in the Reference & circulation stacks.  

Books, eBooks and eVideos on medical assisting at PCC library, including exam prep.

Books, eBooks and eVideos on diagnosis and treatment at PCC library.

When you have a research assignment, be sure to figure out what types of article sources are required or allowed. Some professors require you to use only scholarly peer-reviewed journals while others might let you use a variety of journals.

Scholarly article: Also known as peer-reviewed, academic, or refereed, these articles are written for researchers and experts and usually share the results of a research study. Scholarly articles are written by experts in the field and are reviewed by expert peers. In many databases, you can limit your search to scholarly, peer-reviewed, or refereed journals to weed out any non-scholarly content. Scholarly article example

Professional/trade article: Written for people working in a specific field. Articles can be written by experts in the field or by staff writers. The articles are only reviewed by journal editors, so they go through a less rigorous review process. Trade article example

Popular journals: Written for a general audience rather than for professionals or scholars, and written by journalists. Examples include The New Yorker, People, and Rolling Stone. Popular article example