Instructor's Resource manual to accompany Comprehensive medical assisting Administrative and clinical competencies/

Table of Content

SECTION 1: GENERAL PROCEDURES
Unit 1 Introduction to medical assisting and health professionals
Chapter 1: Medical assisting as a professional
Chapter 2: Health care setting and the health care team
Chapter 3: History of medicine

Unit 2 The therapeutic approach
4: Therapeutic communication skills
Chapter 5: Coping skills for the medical assistant
Chapter 6: The therapeutic approach to the patient with a life- threatening Illness

Unit 3: Responsible medical practice
Chapter 7: Legal considerations
Chapter 8: Ethical considerations
Chapter 9: Emergency procedures and first Aid

SECTION II: ADMINSTRATIVE PROCEDURES
Unit 4: Integrated administrative procedures
Chapter 10: Creating the facility environment
Chapter 11: Computers in the ambulatory care setting
Chapter 12: Telecommunications
Chapter 13: Patient scheduling
Chapter 14: Medical records management
Chapter 15: Written communications
Chapter 16: Transcription

Unit 5: Managing facility finances
Chapter 17: Daily financial practices
Chapter 18: Medical Insurance
Chapter 19: Medical insurance coding
Chapter 20: Billing and collections
Chapter 21: Accounting practices

SECTION III CLINICAL PROCEDURES
Unite 6 Integrated clinical procedures
Chapter 22 Infection control, medical asepsis, and sterilization
Chapter 23: Taking a medical history, the patient's chart and methods of documentation
Chapter 24: Vital signs and measurements
Chapter 25: The physical examination

Unit 7: Assisting with specialty examination and procedures
Chapter 26: Obstetrics and gynecology
Chapter 27: Pediatric
Chapter 28: Male reproductive system
Chapter 29: Gerontology
Chapter 30: Examinations and procedures of body systems

Unit 8: Advanced techniques and procedures
Chapter 31: Assisting with office/ ambulatory
Chapter 32: Diagnostic imaging
Chapter 33: Rehabilitation and therapeutic modalities
Chapter 34: Nutrition in health and disease
Chapter 35: Basic pharmacology
Chapter 36: Calculation of medication dosage and medication administration
Chapter 37: Electrocardiography

Unit 9: Laboratory
Unit 10:Office and human resource management
Unit: Entry into the profession