Alumni

Alum Co-Authors Book to Help Give Students a Valuable Resource

By
Gianni Mogrovejo
Posted
February 1, 2022
Tania Abousaid

After graduation Tania Abousaid, a recent graduate of the Pace Pleasantville PA program, wanted to create an invaluable resource. Something that she knew would help the next generation of students pursuing the same path as her. Together with her once preceptor now colleague Mike Sacks, they co-authored a book together titled First Line Guide: A Comprehensive Review of Didactic Medicine. The official website for the books reads, "We set out to write this book hoping to fill a void we experienced as we were going through PA school. There were two types of textbooks: the gold-standard textbooks that provided immense amounts of information but were challenging to read through, and on the other side of the spectrum, there were the many quality study guides that provided limited detail and were useful only if you already understood the content. What was missing was the book in the middle..."

"We set out to write this book hoping to fill a void we experienced as we were going through PA school."

Abousaid's passion for medicine began in the ICU, when she was a patient herself. After coming off life support Tania made the decision to change her career path and applied to PA school. While a student in the PA program, Tania was Class president and the State Society's (NYSSPA) student director. In just 6 months after graduation, she not only found her way back to the ICU as a critical care provider, but is also working part time in family medicine.

First Line Guide Book

The book her and Sacks have written features more than 640 pages with color photos and diagrams. With First Line Guide they aimed to create a book that could stay with somebody past their time at school. That it could be kept on one's desk as a reference in practice. "In realizing we couldn't find such a book, we set out to write it ourselves," they explained. "We hope this will be the book that walks that fine line and is useful to everyone."

Order a copy of First Line Guide: A Comprehensive Review of Didactic Medicine.