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Medical Assisting Key Terms
Question | Answer |
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Peer review process provides assistance and evaluates educational programs for quality based on academic standards. | Accreditation |
Office procedures and nonclinical tasks medical assistants perform | Administrative |
Testing procedure to prove an individual's baseline competency in a particular area | Certification |
Direct patient care | Clinical |
Credits awarded for attendance at approved local and state AAMA meetings, seminars, study courses, and articles | Continuing Education Units (CEUs) |
Patients who are admitted for diagnostic, radiographic, or treatment purposes | Inpatient |
Where research, investigation, or scientific testing takes place | Laboratory |
Performs a variety of clinical and administrative tasks in a medical setting | Medical Assitant |
Healthcare professional from a variety of specialties brought together to meet a patient's needs | Multidisciplinary |
A person with versatile training in the healthcare field | Multiskilled Health Professional |
Patients who receive care but are not admitted | Outpatient |
Primary health care provider who coordinates care for patients and refers patients to other providers for medical care as needed | Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) |
Course allows student hands-on experience | Practicum |
Taking an exam again or completing required CEUs in a 5 year period | Recertification |
Procedures, actions, processes, permitted for a particular health care profession | Scope of Practice |
Limits set on relationships between health care professionals and patients | Self-boundries |
Subcategory of medicine studied after completion of medical school | Specialty |