Description
Clinical Medical Assisting Online is a complete online course, combining highly interactive content, practice, and assessment into one product that can be used at school, home (or anywhere else with an Internet connection) in conjunction with a traditional classroom or distance education experience.

In addition to access to the online course, students also receive Clinical Procedures for Medical Assistants, 7th edition. Reading assignments throughout the online course come from this textbook.

Clinical Medical Assisting Online teaches students what they need to know to succeed as clinical medical assistants by placing them in a realistic online "virtual externship." Learning within a "work environment" puts new skills and information into context, which makes them easier to understand and remember.

In the first online lesson, the "office manager," Anita Anderson, introduces students to a cast of virtual characters (doctors and other medical assistants). From then on students work side-by-side with these characters learning proper sanitization methods and much more - actually learning on the job. Using lots of interactivity and feedback throughout the course, they learn the skills and best practices needed to become a key member of any medical practice's back office.

The course consists of eight modules:

• Module 1: Precautions for Patient Safety
  (lessons include Sanitizing Hands and Instruments and more)
• Module 2: Preparing a Patient for a Physical Exam
  (lessons include: Obtaining and Documenting a Medical History, Measuring Height and Weight, Measuring Body Temperature, and more)
• Module 3: Assisting with Patient Examinations
  (lessons include Assisting with a Routine Examination and with Specialty examinations)
• Module 4: Collecting and Testing Laboratory Specimens
  (lessons include Collecting and Preparing Specimens for Transport to an Outside Laboratory, Collecting and Testing Immunology and Serology Specimens and more)
• Module 5: Applying Pharmacology Principles for Patient Safety
  (lessons include Preparing and Administering Oral Medications, Performing Injections and more)
• Module 6: Assisting with Minor Office Surgery
  (lessons include Preparing to Assist with Minor Office Surgery and Changing Wound Dressings and Removing Sutures)
• Module 7: Testing to Assist with Patient Diagnosis
  (lessons include Conducting an Electrocardiogram and Conducting a Spirometry Test)
• Module 8: Educating Patients for Compliance
  (lessons includes Educating Patients in Diet and Nutrition and Meeting Specialized Patient Education Needs)

Each module is divided into lessons, breaking the learning down into manageable assignments. Each lesson begins with the mentor explaining the lesson learning objectives and providing a reading assignment from Bonewit-West's Clinical Procedures for Medical Assistants, 7th edition, giving students the proper foundational information before tackling another "day" on their externship. Throughout the lesson, the student is asked to answer questions pertaining to information they've just been taught. At the end of each lesson, the mentor revisits the learning objectives and provides students with an opportunity to revisit content they did not master during the lesson. She also directs students to take the online, scored lesson quiz, join the threaded discussion, and do the lesson homework assignments to complete the lesson training. There is also a scored quiz at the end of each module, as well as a final exam. By the end of the course, students will have learned and mastered all the important content and have practiced all the competencies required of a successful clinical medical assistant.