**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase 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 Clinical Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition teaches the real-world 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, 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!
- 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 eacl³)