KINNS MEDICAL ASSISTANT CHAPTER 3 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE
2026
How much percent will the MA employment grow and between what years? - Answers 31% between
2010-2020
What was the first MA known as? - Answers A neighbor/helping-hand
During what years did schools begin offering training programs? - Answers 1940's
During what years did MA organizations begin developing? - Answers 1950's
Who is Mary E. Kinn - Answers The co-founder of The America Association of Medical Assistants
(AAMA)
List the two major categories of duties that medical assistants perform? - Answers Administrative and
clinical tasks
Describe administrative tasks - Answers Greet patients, enter information and assemble patients
medical record, bookkeeping, file papers, billing and coding, answer phones, set schedules, and
determine insurance coverages,
Describe clinical tasks - Answers Prepare patients and equipment for examinations, assists physicians,
peforn basic testing procedures such as phlebotomy, first-aif and CPR, collect and prepare lab
specimens, administer medications and perform xray if trained to do so, assist in minor surgical
procedures, prepare sterile trays, and obtaining and recording vital signs
Nontraditional students - Answers Students much older by a decade who decides to return back to
school
Why will the job growth of MA's be so great? - Answers Increasing nynmber of group practices, clinics
and other healthcare facilities that need additional support personnel especially MA who can handle
administrative and clinical work
What jewelry should me limit when wearing uniform? - Answers Engagement ring, wedding band,
and professional pin
What is unacceptable in healthcare facility? - Answers Facial and tongue piercings, wild makeup,
perfume and aftershave cologne, wild nail polish, and long nails
What is an important part of any occupation? - Answers Teamwork
How long are private career institutions? - Answers 7-10 month
How long are courses at community college? - Answers 1-2 years
MA training usually involves what? - Answers Study of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology,
aseptic technique, clinical procedures, medical law and ethics, principles of pharmacology, insursce
billing and coding, receptionist and telephone technique, patient communication, human
relationships and management duties, and receptionist duties
What do MA require before graduating? - Answers Externship
Allied health fields - Answers Occupational disciplined in which professionals involved with the
delivery of the healthcare or related serviced assists physicians with the diagnosis, treatments, and
carwvof patients in many areas
Benefits - Answers Services or payments provided under a health plan, employee, or some other
agreent, including programs such as health insurance, pensions, retirement planning, and many other
options that may be offered to employees of a company organizations
Certification - Answers The arresting of something as being true as represented or as meeting a
standard; the result of having seeing tested, usually by a third party, and awarded a certificate based
on proven knowledge
Continuing education units (CEU's) - 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 - 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) - Answers A training program that is part of the medical assisting course of
study in an educational institution
Intagibles - Answers Qualities that cannot be perceived, especially by touch or cannot be precisely
indentified or realized by the mind
Invasive - Answers Involving entry into the living body, as by incision or insertion of an instrument
Perks - Answers Extra advantages or benefits of working in a specific job that may or may not be
commonplace in that particular profession; a shortened form of perquisites
2026
How much percent will the MA employment grow and between what years? - Answers 31% between
2010-2020
What was the first MA known as? - Answers A neighbor/helping-hand
During what years did schools begin offering training programs? - Answers 1940's
During what years did MA organizations begin developing? - Answers 1950's
Who is Mary E. Kinn - Answers The co-founder of The America Association of Medical Assistants
(AAMA)
List the two major categories of duties that medical assistants perform? - Answers Administrative and
clinical tasks
Describe administrative tasks - Answers Greet patients, enter information and assemble patients
medical record, bookkeeping, file papers, billing and coding, answer phones, set schedules, and
determine insurance coverages,
Describe clinical tasks - Answers Prepare patients and equipment for examinations, assists physicians,
peforn basic testing procedures such as phlebotomy, first-aif and CPR, collect and prepare lab
specimens, administer medications and perform xray if trained to do so, assist in minor surgical
procedures, prepare sterile trays, and obtaining and recording vital signs
Nontraditional students - Answers Students much older by a decade who decides to return back to
school
Why will the job growth of MA's be so great? - Answers Increasing nynmber of group practices, clinics
and other healthcare facilities that need additional support personnel especially MA who can handle
administrative and clinical work
What jewelry should me limit when wearing uniform? - Answers Engagement ring, wedding band,
and professional pin
What is unacceptable in healthcare facility? - Answers Facial and tongue piercings, wild makeup,
perfume and aftershave cologne, wild nail polish, and long nails
What is an important part of any occupation? - Answers Teamwork
How long are private career institutions? - Answers 7-10 month
How long are courses at community college? - Answers 1-2 years
MA training usually involves what? - Answers Study of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology,
aseptic technique, clinical procedures, medical law and ethics, principles of pharmacology, insursce
billing and coding, receptionist and telephone technique, patient communication, human
relationships and management duties, and receptionist duties
What do MA require before graduating? - Answers Externship
Allied health fields - Answers Occupational disciplined in which professionals involved with the
delivery of the healthcare or related serviced assists physicians with the diagnosis, treatments, and
carwvof patients in many areas
Benefits - Answers Services or payments provided under a health plan, employee, or some other
agreent, including programs such as health insurance, pensions, retirement planning, and many other
options that may be offered to employees of a company organizations
Certification - Answers The arresting of something as being true as represented or as meeting a
standard; the result of having seeing tested, usually by a third party, and awarded a certificate based
on proven knowledge
Continuing education units (CEU's) - 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 - 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) - Answers A training program that is part of the medical assisting course of
study in an educational institution
Intagibles - Answers Qualities that cannot be perceived, especially by touch or cannot be precisely
indentified or realized by the mind
Invasive - Answers Involving entry into the living body, as by incision or insertion of an instrument
Perks - Answers Extra advantages or benefits of working in a specific job that may or may not be
commonplace in that particular profession; a shortened form of perquisites
