Are you Certifiable?
The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare declared medical assisting what kind of health profession?
allied health profession.
Their main purpose is to raise the standards of Medical Assisting to a more professional level.
What is the American Association of Medical Assistants or the AAMA?
This organization's purpose is to maintain and improve the quality of medical care and to certify doctors in various specialties.
HINT: ABMS
What is the American Board of Medical Specialities?
In the communication circle, this is called the response to the message by the receiver.
What is feedback?
According to Maslow, this is when people become violent.
When their deficiency needs are not met
ECPI is an example of this and is responsible for documenting competencies learned by MA students.
What is the educational institution?
Insurance companies refer to this group of physicians as primary care physicians.
What is family practitioners and internists?
A MA working in a a pediatrician's office who takes a continuing education class on child development demonstrates this.
What is growth?
These skills are the minimum proficiencies necessary to do a job.
What are hard skills?
When you mirror what a patient says, this is referred to as:
What is understanding?
The purpose of this is to ensure that medical assisting programs provide a competency-based education.
What is the purpose of accreditation?
This organization is the world's largest publisher of scientific and medical information.
What is the AMA (American Medical Association)?
These skills involve careful listening, observing, speaking, and writing.
What are communication skills?
Knowing what you know and what you don't know is part of being this.
What is self confident?
The stage of development where a person develops "follower" traits is this.
What is the adolescence stage?
This is the process by which programs are officially authorized by one of two national entities: CAAHEP and ABHES.
What is accreditation?
This term that refers to assessment of the urgency and immediate medical needs of a patient.
What is Triage?
A personal qualification of being an effective and productive medical assistant is to do this.
What is showing respect to patients?
This specialist cares for pregnant women through pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the period following labor.
What is an obstetrician?
Showing initiative in the workplace can get you this.
What is noticed by upper management?
Formal training in this lasts 9 months to 2 years and award a certificate, diploma, or associate degree.
What is Medical Assisting?
This is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization with the goal of maintaining and elevating the standards of healthcare delivery through the evaluation and accreditation of healthcare organizations.
Who is the Joint Commission?
This involves feeling and understanding another person's experience without having the experience yourself.
What is empathy?
Two aspects of being organized are this.
What is time management and prioritizing tasks?
During the communication process, posture can usually be described as either of these two.
What is open or closed posture?