Kinn's the Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Medical Assisting**

More than any other product on the market, the most successful Medical Assistants begin their careers with Kinn. Known for more than 65 years for its alignment with national curriculum standards, Kinn's The Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition teaches the real-world administrative and clinical skills essential for a career in the modern medical office ― always with a focus on helping you apply what you’ve learned. This edition features a new unit on advanced clinical skills and expanded content on telemedicine, infection control related to COVID-19, IV therapy, radiology, rehabilitation, insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and much more. With its approachable writing style appropriate for all levels of learners and a full continuum of separately sold adaptive solutions, real-world simulations, EHR documentation experience, and HESI remediation and assessment, quickly master the leading skills to prepare for certification and a successful career in the dynamic and growing Medical Assisting profession!

• Comprehensive coverage of all administrative and clinical procedures complies with accreditation requirements
• Step-by-step, illustrated procedures include rationales and a focus on professionalism
• Electronic health record (EHR) coverage provides access to hands-on activities using SimChart® for the Medical Office (sold separately)
• Applied learning approach incorporates threaded case scenarios and critical thinking applications
• Patient education and legal and ethical features at the end of each chapter reinforce legal and communications implications within Medical Assisting practice
• Key vocabulary terms and definitions are presented at the beginning of each chapter, highlighted in text discussions, and summarized in a glossary for quick reference

• NEW! Content aligns to 2022 Medical Assisting educational competencies
• NEW! Advanced Clinical Skills unit features three new chapters on IV therapy, radiology basics, and radiology positioning to support expanded medical assisting functions
• NEW! Coverage of telemedicine, enhanced infection control related to COVID-19, and catheterization
• NEW! Procedures address IV therapy, limited-scope radiography, applying a sling, and coaching for stool collection
• UPDATED! Coverage of administrative functions includes insurance, coding, privacy, data security, and more
• UPDATED! Online practice exam for the Certified Medical Assistant matches 2021 test updates
• EXPANDED! Information on physical medicine and rehabilitation
• EXPANDED! Content on specimen collection, including wound swab, nasal, and nasopharyngeal specimen collections

Brigitte Niedzwiecki began her healthcare career as a nurse, working in the hospital with surgical and pediatric patients and also in urgent care. After obtaining her master’s degree in nursing, Brigitte worked in patient and staff education, as a software trainer, and as a nurse educator before transitioning into education. She has been the Medical Assisting program director at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, during which time she has participated in reviewing and writing and has helped develop state and national Medical Assisting curricula. She is also lead author of Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, a related MA core text designed primarily for programs that do not offer a separate A&P course and are focused on certification.

Julie Pepper has spent her entire career in health care as a medical assistant in a variety of offices and clinics, developing expertise in the electronic health record and as an instructor in a medical assistant program. She combines her education in dietetics with her clinical and administrative experience as an instructor in the Medical Assisting program at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin, where she taught for 21 years and from where she retired from teaching. Julie was also the program director for the college’s Health Navigator program. She has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous Medical Assisting educational products over the last decade, including Sim Chart for the Medical Office. She currently serves as the sole author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office and The Simulated Administrative Medical Office. She has been leading author of Beik's Health Insurance Today text and workbook since the 8th edition. She also has been a coauthor for Kinn’s Medical Assisting Fundamentals, Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, and Today’s Medical Assistant. Julie strives to bring the needed information to students in a way to keep them interested in learning all that they need to be wonderful employees working in healthcare.