KINNS MEDICAL ASSISTANT
CHAPTER 3 EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
How much percent will the MA employment grow and between what years? - Correct
Answers -31% between 2010-2020
What was the first MA known as? - Correct Answers -A neighbor/helping-hand
During what years did schools begin offering training programs? - Correct Answers -
1940's
During what years did MA organizations begin developing? - Correct Answers -1950's
Who is Mary E. Kinn - Correct Answers -The co-founder of The America Association of
Medical Assistants (AAMA)
List the two major categories of duties that medical assistants perform? - Correct
Answers -Administrative and clinical tasks
Describe administrative tasks - Correct Answers -Greet patients, enter information and
assemble patients medical record, bookkeeping, file papers, billing and coding, answer
phones, set schedules, and determine insurance coverages,
Continuing education units (CEU's) - Correct Answers -Credits for courses, classes, and
seminars related to an individuals profession that are designed to promote education
and to keep the professional up to date on current procedures and trend in the field;
CEU of then are required for licensing
Cross-training - Correct Answers -Training in more than one area so that a multitude of
duties may be performed by one person or so that substitutions or personnel may be
made in an emergency
Externship (or internship) - Correct Answers -A training program that is part of the
medical assisting course of study in an educational institution
Describe clinical tasks - Correct Answers -Prepare patients and equipment for
examinations, assists physicians, peforn basic testing procedures such as phlebotomy,
CHAPTER 3 EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
How much percent will the MA employment grow and between what years? - Correct
Answers -31% between 2010-2020
What was the first MA known as? - Correct Answers -A neighbor/helping-hand
During what years did schools begin offering training programs? - Correct Answers -
1940's
During what years did MA organizations begin developing? - Correct Answers -1950's
Who is Mary E. Kinn - Correct Answers -The co-founder of The America Association of
Medical Assistants (AAMA)
List the two major categories of duties that medical assistants perform? - Correct
Answers -Administrative and clinical tasks
Describe administrative tasks - Correct Answers -Greet patients, enter information and
assemble patients medical record, bookkeeping, file papers, billing and coding, answer
phones, set schedules, and determine insurance coverages,
Continuing education units (CEU's) - Correct Answers -Credits for courses, classes, and
seminars related to an individuals profession that are designed to promote education
and to keep the professional up to date on current procedures and trend in the field;
CEU of then are required for licensing
Cross-training - Correct Answers -Training in more than one area so that a multitude of
duties may be performed by one person or so that substitutions or personnel may be
made in an emergency
Externship (or internship) - Correct Answers -A training program that is part of the
medical assisting course of study in an educational institution
Describe clinical tasks - Correct Answers -Prepare patients and equipment for
examinations, assists physicians, peforn basic testing procedures such as phlebotomy,
