History of Medical Assisting
The founder of American Association of Medical Assistants
What is Maxine Williams
The process by which a recognized credentialing agency or professional organization determines that an individual has met the required education and/or experience criteria.
What is certification?
This was used by Babylonian physicians in 3000 BC.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
This upholds who must be licensed to perform certain procedures.
What is the medical practice acts?
the foundation of most medical terms and gives the essential meaning of the term. One example of this is cardi.
What is word roots?
The review an institution voluntarily undergoes to determine whether its school meets or exceeds standards set forth by an accrediting body.
What is accreditation?
Certified individuals with NCMA.
What is the NCCT?
These contributors created lists of remedies, surgical treatments of wounds and injuries and recorded sanitation rules.
What is the Egyptians?
This means approval or sanction and is granted to applicants who have passed the NBME.
What is endorsement?
This is found at the beginning of a medical term.
This requires on average 160-200 clock hours to complete.
What is externship?
Offers the RMA credentials.
What is the American Medical Technologists (AMT)?
The emblem of the medical profession.
What is the caduceus?
This form of practice is becoming less popular because of increase in costs, changes in practicing medicine, and legal environment.
What is solo practice?
A plane that runs from side to side; it slices the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the frontal (or coronal) plane?
This refers to assigning work-related tasks for which the medical assistant is both responsible and competent to complete.
What is delegating duties?
Offers both the CMAA and the CCMA credentials.
What is the National Heatlhcareer Association (NHA)?
Greek physician who practiced in Rome and was known as the "Prince of Physicians".
Who is Galen?
This form of practice consists of three or more physicians who share the same facility and practice medicine together.
What is group practice?
skin injury that scrapes away surface of the skin.
What is abrasion?
Arriving to work early to ensure you are prepared for the day is on sign of this quality required by an MA.
What is punctuality?
Issues the NCMA credential.
What is the NCCT?
This person discovered antibiotics.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This private nonprofit organization encourages high standards of medical care.
What is the Joint Commission?
The medical specialty that treats disorders involving the musculoskeletal system.
What is Orthopedics?