Medical Assistant
The Medical Assistant is a multi-skilled allied health professional trained to function in ambulatory care, outpatient clinics, and physicians’ offices. The training and education involves administrative front office skills (the business end of the medical practice) and clinical patient care skills. A high degree of flexibility, adaptability, critical thinking is necessary to perform as a medical assistant. People skills are as important as technical skills. Medical Assistants in the front office and back office areas represent the quality care provided by the medical practice. A Medical Assistant works under the supervision of a physician or other health practitioner. The duties of Medical Assistants vary from office to office, depending on the location and size of the practice and the practitioner’s specialty.
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Beginners Bookshelf
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Today's Medical Assistant
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ISBN: 0323581277Publication Date: 2020-03-02Bringing together comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage of medical assisting competencies and a solid foundation of anatomy and physiology. Provides everything you need to successfully begin a career as a medical assistant. -
Study Guide for Today's Medical Assistant
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ISBN: 1455701513Publication Date: 2012-10-10This study guide helps you understand and apply the material with practical exercises, activities, flashcards, checklists, review questions, and more. Laboratory assignment tables list the procedures in each chapter, including study guide page number references. -
Medical Assistant Exam Prep
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ISBN: 9781506252421Publication Date: 2019-11-05Provides the in-depth content, comprehensive review, and targeted practice you need to pass the Certified Medical Assistant and Registered Medical Assistant exams.
In The News
PubMed through The National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Medical Assistant
Eagle Library Search
HCC Library Databases for Medical Assisting
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Alt HealthWatch
Provides coverage of complementary and alternative medicine back to 1990. (Mostly full text)
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CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
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EBSCO eBook Collection
This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses. Removes access barriers with hundreds of thousands of DRM-free options that can easily be read on any device.
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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. (Some full-text)
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Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
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MedicLatina
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. (Full-text).
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Medline
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)
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Mometrix eLibrary
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