These medical assistant instructional materials include 28 instructional units organized into sections covering orientation; anatomy and physiology, related disorders, disease, and skills; office practices; and clinical practices. Each unit includes eight basic components: performance objectives, suggested activities for teachers, information sheets, assignment sheets, job sheets, transparency masters, tests and answers to tests, and assignment sheets. (Depending on specific objectives, transparency masters, assignment sheets, and job sheets may or may not be included in a given unit.) Topics covered in individual units include orientation, the Health Occupations Students of America, career success, body planes and cavities, nutrition, individual body systems, medical terminology, human relations and communications, medical law and ethics, secretarial procedures, business procedures, basic medical assistant skills, surgical asepsis, instrument use, dressing application, basic laboratory tests, pharmacology, administering medications, emergencies, and first aid. (MN)