Vocabulary
Characteristics of Professional MAs
Credentialing Agencies
Allied Health Occupations
100

Dependable, able to be trusted

What is Reliable?

100

The ability to understand another's perspective, experiences, or motivations.

What is empathy?

100

Certified Medical Assistant (CMA)

What is AAMA?

100

Provides variety of services including injury prevention, assessment, and immediate care

What is athletic trainer?

200

The process of thinking about new information so as to create new ways of learning

What is reflection?

200

Having good manners or bring polite

What is courtesy?

200

Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)

What is American Med Technologists (AMT)?

200

Provides direct patient care services under supervision of licensed physician 

What is Physicians Assistant (PA)?

300

The process by which something becomes harmful or unusable through contact with something unclean

What is contamination?

300

The state or quality of being worthy of respect

What is dignity?

300

Clinical Med Assistant (CCMA)

Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA)

What is National Healthcareer Association (NHA)?

300

Provides basic care services, including diagnosing and prescribing meds

W is nurse practitioner (NP)?

400

A concept of care that involves health professionals and volunteers who provide medical, psychological, and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their loved ones

What is hospice?

400

Being acutely sensitive to what is proper and appropriate when interacting with others

What is being tactful?

400

Medical Assistant (NCMA)

What is National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT)?

400

Uses treatment, education, and recreation services to help ppl with illnesses, disabilities, and other conditions

What is therapeutic recreation specialist?

500

Failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would under similar circumstances; such conduct falls below the standard of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm.  

What is negligence?

500

Describes the differences and similarities in identity, perspectives and points of view among people

What is diversity?

500

CMAC

What is American Medical Certification Association (AMCA)?

500

Performs a series of diagnostic tests & measurements on patients w visual disorders

What is orthoptist?