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Accreditation
Recognition to an educational program, maintaining standards, to qualify grad�s for professional practice
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Ambulatory care setting
Clinics, urgent care facilities- where health care services are offered.
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Attribute
Inherent characteristic
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Bachelor�s Degree
4-year academic degree
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Certification
Guarantees as being true or as represented by or as meeting standard
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Certified Medical Assistant (CMA aama)
Successfully completed the AAMA�s national certification exam
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Competency
Legally qualified or adequate
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Compliance
Conformity in fulfilling official requirements
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Credentialed
Testimonials showing personis entitled to credit or has a right to exercise power
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Dexterity
Skill and ease in using the hands
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Diploma
Document bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by educational institute
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Disposition
Temperament, character, personality
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Empathy
Insight into others feelings, emotions, being aware of the significance and meaning to that person
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Facilitate
To make an action or process easer
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Improvise
To make, invent or arrange in an unplanned / spontaneous manner
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Integrate
Incorporate into a lager unit/ form or blend into a whole
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License
Permission by competent authority to engage in a profession
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Licensure
Granting of licenses to practice a profession
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Litigious
Prone to engage in lawsuits
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Practicum
Transitional stage providing opportunity to apply theory learned in class to health care setting
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Professionalism
Qualities that characterize or distinguish a professional person who conforms to the technical and ethical standards of profession
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Proprietary
Privately owned / profit making
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Registered medical assistant
Credentials awarded for successfully passing the AMT exam
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Scope of practice
The range of clinical procedures and activities that are allowed by law of a profession
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Acupuncture
Treatment to relieve pain by puncturing the skin at specific points
- Heath Maintenance Organization
- Managed care operation / for profit corp with salaried ee�s
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Integrative medicine
Bringing together of two or more treatments to function as a whole
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Managed Care Operation
Healthcare setting to reduce cost of care while still providing access to care
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Asepsis
Protecting against infection
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Malaria ( female mosquito bites)
Acute infectious disease caused by presence of protozoan parasites� within red blood cells
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Moxibustion
Ancient Chinese method of treatment uses powdered plant substance on skin to raise a blister
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Opiates
Opiates are so named because they are constituents or derivatives of constituents found in opium, which is processed from the latex sap of the opium poppy
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Pharmacopoeia
Book describing drugs and their preparation , collection stck of drugs
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Septicemia
Invasion of pathogenic bacteria into bloodstream
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Trephination
Round holes in the skull are referred to as this
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Typhus (typhoid)
Acute infectious disease severe headaches, rash, high fever, unsanitary conditions
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Yellow fever
Acute infectious disease where a person develops jaundice, vomits hemorrhage and has a fever mostly caused by mosquitoes.
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