Introduction to Medical Assisting
The Healthcare Team
Basic Safety and Infection Control
Medical Records and Documentation
Patient Education
100
The organization whose main purpose is to raise standards to a high professional level.
What is the AAMA?
100
A physician who diagnoses and treats physical reactions to substances such as mold, duets, fur, and pollen from plants or flowers is a(n).
What is an allergist?
100
Standard Precautions apply to_____.
What is blood?
100
The first document found in a patient's financial record.
What is the patient registration form?
100
The reading level for patient education brochures.
What is 6th grade?
200
A certified medical assistant must recertify the CMA credential every____.
What is 5 years?
200
A specialists who reads electrocardiograms (ECG) for hospital laboratories.
What is a cardiologist?
200
The most important aseptic procedure for a medical assistant.
What is proper hand hygiene?
200
This is necessary to release a patient's record to the patient's insurance company.
What is the patient's written consent?
200
This type of preoperative teaching supplies details about the surgical procedure.
What is factual?
300
The agency that declared medical assisting as an allied health profession.
What is US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare?
300
The branch of medicine that works to maintain the function of the musculoskeletal system.
What is orthopedics?
300
The federal administration that was created in 1970 to help protect employee safety in the workplace.
What is OSHA?
300
The patient's illness and reason for this visit to the physician are found in the__.
What is the patient medical history?
300
The three domains of learning.
What is cognitive, affective, and psychomotor?
400
Graduates from an approved medical assistant program and pass the CMA or RMA examination receive this.
What is a certification or registration?
400
A medical specialty that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with conditions resulting from an unexpected medical crisis or accident.
What is emergency medicine?
400
The body's ability to resist pathogens and disease.
What is immunity?
400
The type of documentation that provides an orderly series of steps for dealing with any medical cae.
What is SOAP?
400
Theoretical or practical understanding of a subject and the ability to recall it is a part of this learning domain.
What is the cognitive domain?
500
The institution that is responsible for documenting the competencies learned by medical assisting students.
What is the education institution?
500
Insurance companies refer to this group of physicians as primary care physicians.
What is a family practitioner or internist?
500
The cycle of infection begins with establishment of the pathogen in the____.
What is reservoir host?
500
The organization that reviews patient charts to monitor whether the care provided and fee charged meet accepted standards.
What is The Joint Commission or TJC?
500
The first level of disease and illness prevention.
What is adopting health-promoting behaviors?
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