Comprehensive Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Bright Insights. Packed with hundreds of hundreds of full-color photos and detailed diagrams, each chapter illustrates key procedures and showcases current equipment, building familiarity with the tools of the trade and bringing the pages to life.

Guiding Graphics. Quick Reference Guides and infographics throughout the text help students find and understand critical information in a clear, succinct, and engaging way.

Enhanced Studying. Created to improve testing outcomes, the Study for Success feature integrates a variety of optional and ancillary resources into each chapter while the expanded Certification Review quizzes build confidence with the certification testing format.

Convenient Glossary. An extensive, back-of-the-book glossary provides key medical and industry terms, along with their definitions, serving as a helpful reference for mastering the unique terminology and acronyms used in health care.

Healthy Skills. Painstaking coverage of the latest clinical and administrative skillsets offers readers everything they need to get ahead in one of today's most rewarding and in-demand fields.

Competency Mapping. Drawing clear connections between chapter material and current ABHES, CAAHEP, and MAERB competencies, this book shows students how their lessons intersect with the job, and help them better prepare for their futures as working professionals.

Dynamic Trends. Extensive updates throughout the readings examine the latest trends and issues, industry best practices, and current technology, giving students an up-close perspective of medical assisting today.

Enlightening Openers. Every unit starts with this NEW opening feature called Attributes of Professionalism, which explores five important attributes of professional behavior in the health care workplace and offers practical questions for self-testing.

NEW Procedures. Updated to include the latest new and revised procedures, this book addresses the full depth and breadth of general, administrative, and clinical competencies for Medical Assistants.

Critical Focus. Designed with a laser focus from the first page, COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL ASSISTING, 6e delivers learning outcomes based on current MAERB/CAAHEP/ABHES competencies, CLIA-waived laboratory procedures, and relevant digital terminology.

Pointed Icons. Special icons highlight content throughout the readings to remind students of the importance of professionalism in their medical assisting career.

Improved Course Control. A revised instructor's manual with chapter-linked exercises, learning activities tailored to diverse learning styles, a robust study guide with expanded critical thinking exercises and problem solving, and online competency checklists help you guide students through procedures and evaluate them with ease.