Most of our exams have study guides available. They are designed to help you determine when you are ready to sit for the exam. There are many other Medical Assistant exam preparation books available online. Since the first 100 questions on the Specialty Certified Medical Assistant - SCMA® exam are general in nature any MA test prep book can be very helpful. Here are some examples:
- Kaplan Medical Assistant Exam Review
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ Medical Assisting Exam Review
- MA Review Notes: Exam Certification Pocket Guide
- Pocket Guide to accompany Medical Assisting
- Kinn’s The Medical Assistant
- Delmar’s Comprehensive Medical Assisting
The following is a listing of therapeutic specific reference materials to help you prepare for the associated SCMA exam:
- Comprehensive Gynecology
- Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems
- Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures
- Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Mosby’s Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference
- Physical Examination and Health Assessment
- Medical Surgical Nursing: Preparation for Practice
- Understanding Pharmacology: Essentials for Medication Safety
- Medical Terminology For Dummies
- Maternal and Newborn Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking
- Review of Orthopaedics
- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
- Cardiac Surgery Essentials for Critical Care Nursing
- Gerontological Nursing
- Harrison’s Endocrinology
- Greenspan’s Basic and Clinical Endocrinology
- Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures
- Clinical Nursing Skills
- Diseases: A Nursing Process Approach to Excellent Care
- Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
- Pocket Companion for Physical Examination and Health Assessment
- Ferri’s Clinical Advisor
- The Harriet Lane Handbook
- Textbook of Medical Physiology
- Pathophysiology of Disease An Introduction to Clinical Medicine
- BMJ Clinical Evidence Handbook
- Urological Nursing
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility: Handbook for Clinicians
- Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility
- Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues
- Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice
- Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology