This updated textbook provides core prerequisite skills for students entering any health professions academic program by covering communication, cultural sensitivity, human body basics, assessing the patient, ethical and legal aspects, and securing a job. Coverage focuses on communication, cultural sensitivity, human body basics, assessing patients, ethical and legal aspects, and how to successfully land a job. More than 60 full-color drawings and photographs illustrate important tasks, procedures, diseases, and disorders. “Stop, Think, and Learn” case studies foster critical-thinking skills. “Flashpoint” boxes summarize and clarify key concepts.