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If you are planning a career as a medical assistant we provide a creative look at what a medical assistant does. While this is not a complete medical assistant course each chapter covers many important areas of medical assistant knowledge and a glance behind the scenes of a busy medical office. Our goal is to introduce you to basic concepts of the medical assistant discipline and briefly touch on fundamental skills typically encountered in a medical office. All chapters are printable so you can evaluate your knowledge any time you wish.

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From organizational, administrative and clinical duties, infection control methods, medical record management, confidentiality, consent for medical treatment, to incident reports and release of medical information. Each and every chapter highlights important responsibilities and case scenarios a medical assistant must know how to handle.

Our program was initially provided at UniversalClass.com with special focus on real situations and daily medical office routines. Similar modules might be taught in formal medical assistant vocational training programs.

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Learn how medical assistants keep the doctors and daily medical office routines on track and work flow going. Catch a glimpse of important concepts that make the medical assistant so indispensable:

Chapter Introduction

 1. Concepts of health and illness

 2. Patients' Bill of Rights and responsibilities

 3. Concept of professional ethics

 4. Commitment to understanding and interpersonal relations

 5. Patient education and proper communication

 6. Legal implications and informed consent

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 7. Important personal traits of a health care professional

 8. Key elements of professional conduct

 9. Communication techniques used in a health care setting

10. Proper reporting and charting procedures

The Needs and Care of a Medical Patient

The role of the medical assistant as part of the modern medical office health care team is becoming increasingly important and as medical research and new discoveries advance at an exponential rate, so are the demands and expectations doctors have of their medical assistants.

Doctors, employers, recruiters and job agencies are screaming for more qualified front and back office medical assistive staff and are ready to recruit well trained medical assistants for available positions. New medical assistants should take every opportunity to enhance, solidify and further their knowledge in order to remain efficient and competitive in today's highly technical and rapidly advancing health care system.

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12. Non-emergency ambulatory care provided for patients

13. Needs of a surgical patient during the preoperative and postoperative phases of treatment

14. Evaluate the needs of the orthopedic patient

15. Uses and application procedures for dressings and bandages

16. Needs of the terminally ill patient

17. Identifying patient safety concerns in a medical office

18. Identify environmental hygiene concerns in a medical office

19. Recall medical asepsis principles and recognize medical asepsis practices

20. Surgical aseptic techniques, and the correct sterilization process for different types of materials

21. Sterile article handling and surgical hand scrubbing techniques, and gowning and gloving

22. Proper handling of sharps and medical waste sorting, packaging, handling, and disposal procedures

23. General first aid rules

24. Protocols for triage

25. Different types of wound treatments

26. Management and treatment procedures for open and internal soft-tissue injuries

27. Classification and evaluation process for burns, and appropriate treatment for types of burn

28. Appropriate stabilization and treatment procedure for the management of bone injuries

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