Professional Roles
This organization’s primary purpose is to raise the standards of the medical assistant profession.
What is the AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants)?
This level of cleaning removes most pathogens but does not always kill spores.
What is disinfection?
This practitioner treats diseases of the glands of internal secretion (hormones).
Who is an Endocrinologist?
The component that goes at the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.
What is a Prefix?
The stage where a disease reaches its highest point of development.
What is the acute stage?
The category of skills that ensures an MA stays within their "scope of practice."
What are Legal and Ethical Concepts?
This machine uses steam pressure (15–30 psi) at 250–270°F for sterilization.
What is an autoclave?
A specialist who diagnoses and treats disorders of the stomach and intestines.
Who is a Gastroenterologist?
This muscle divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the Diaphragm?
The place where conditions are ripe for pathogens to replicate.
What is the reservoir?
This team-based model of care is led by a personal provider.
What is the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)?
The place where conditions are "ripe" for pathogens to replicate.
What is the Reservoir?
A specialist who treats conditions of the blood and blood-forming tissues.
Who is a Hematologist?
When building a medical term, this is the part you should identify first.
What is the Suffix?
To prevent the spread of disease, you should refrain from patient care if you have this type of skin condition.
What is an exudative condition?
This person conducts preplanning visits and assists with referrals and prescriptions.
Who is the Patient Navigator?
This type of disinfectant is considered "low-level."
What is Household Bleach?
This specialist treats diseases and disorders of the eye.
Who is an Ophthalmologist?
The science of the function of cells, tissues, and organs.
What is Physiology?
This specific type of Hepatitis is NOT considered a blood-borne pathogen.
What is Hepatitis A?
This term refers to the ability to "say the right thing at the right time."
What is Tact?
Autoclaves use 15–30 lbs of pressure at this temperature range (Fahrenheit).
What is 250°F to 270°F?
This practitioner specializes in "altered immunologic reactivity."
Who is an Allergist?
To make the plural of a word ending in -nx, you change the ending to this.
What is -nges?
These are the 5 classifications of infectious microorganisms.
These are the 5 classifications of infectious microorganisms.