Study Guide for Kinn's the Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach

Designed to support the trusted content in Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 14th Edition, this study guide and procedure checklist manual is the essential review and practice companion to reinforce key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and ensure you master and apply administrative medical assisting content. This robust companion guide offers a wide range of exercises to reinforce your understanding of common administrative skills ― including new certification preparation questions that offer additional practice for certification exams, a review of medical terminology and anatomy, and need-to-know workplace applications. Trusted for more than 60 years as a key part of the student journey from classroom to career, it also features competency checklists to clearly assess your performance and progression from day one until you land your first job as a Medical Assistant.

• Comprehensive coverage of all administrative procedures gives you an overview of everything you need to know to work in a medical office job
• Hundreds of practice questions test your knowledge and critical thinking skills with vocabulary review, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions
• Skills practice, workplace applications, and online activities promote your critical thinking skills
• Procedure checklists help you track your performance toward mastery of key skills and job-readiness
• Work products allow you to provide documentation to instructors or file in professional portfolios to use in job-searching
• Chapter-by-chapter correlation with the textbook allow you to test your comprehension as you go
• Perforated pages are easily removed for on-the-go study or turn-in assignments and evaluations

• NEW! Chapter reviews medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and pathology to help you build a solid foundation for practice
• NEW! Expanded content on medical office accounts, collections, banking, and practice management covers the most dynamic topics in the modern medical office
• NEW! Certification Preparation questions help you focus on passing the certification exam from Day 1
• NEW! Expanded and updated sample certification exams help you practice and prepare for certification
• NEW! Streamlined presentation of the material combines chapters in an easier-to-read format

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.