Medical Assisting: A Patient-Centered Approach to Administrative and Clinical Competencies is a comprehensive text that acquaints students with the administrative and clinical aspects of medical assisting. The text stresses communication skills and patient education techniques and takes a friendly, first-person approach to providing information. The 40 chapter text covers all entry-level competencies required by the 1997 AAMA Role Delineation's Areas of Competence and 1990 DACUM.

Glencoe Clinical Procedures for Medical Assisting: A Patient Centered Approach details procedures related to infection control, preparing examination and treatment areas, taking patient history and measurements, assisting the doctor, and conducting laboratory procedures. It provides relevant information about nutrition, pharmacology, x-rays, drug administration, and much more. The 22-chapter text is organized around the 1997 AAMA ROle Delineation Areas of Competence and features a patient centered approach to care.