AMCA CERTIFICATION CORE REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Unique Patient Identifier (UPI) - ✔✔Links all clinical observations, tests, procedures,
villains, evaluations, and diagnoses to the patient
✔✔Clinical Vocabularies - ✔✔Set a common definitions for medical terms that ease
communication by decreasing uncertainty
✔✔SNOMED-CT - ✔✔Clinical vocabulary designed to encompass all trends used in
medicine
✔✔LOINC - ✔✔Trends and codes used for electronic exchange of lab results and
clinical observations
✔✔UMLS - ✔✔Thesaurus database of medical terms
✔✔Fixed Appointment Scheduling - ✔✔One patient is scheduled for a specific
appointment time
✔✔Cluster Scheduling - ✔✔Scheduling a group of patients cooking in for the fake tour
of service should be scheduled around the same block of time
✔✔Double Booking - ✔✔Two patients are scheduled to see the same physician at once
✔✔Wave Scheduling Method - ✔✔Patients are scheduled for the first half of each hour,
and each patient is seen in the order they arrive
✔✔Narrative Style Charting - ✔✔Physicians dictate notes about patients care, then
gave rise notes transcribed and placed in the patients chart
✔✔SOAP - ✔✔Subjective, objective, assessment, plan
, ✔✔Subjective - ✔✔Any information that the patient provides including chief complaint,
or comments made during an examination
✔✔Objective - ✔✔Information based on observations made by the physician or medical
assistant (lab results, vital signs)
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔A brief summary of the patients symptoms, and may often include
a diagnosis as well as a list of other possible diagnoses
✔✔Plan - ✔✔Consists of any information regarding the prescribed plan of action for a
patient (prescriptions, instructions, referrals)
✔✔Problem Oriented Medical Record (POMR) - ✔✔Charting that tracks patients
problems during the time they are receiving medical care
✔✔Progress Notes - ✔✔Daily chart notes which are used to record any information that
Irish to the various stages of a patients condition
✔✔Flow Chart - ✔✔A visual aid used to keep track of information over a period of time
✔✔Alphabetic Filing System - ✔✔Information is filed according to the patients last name
✔✔Numeric Filing System - ✔✔Information regarding each patient is stored used a
number, instead of the last name
✔✔A Medical Record Contains... - ✔✔Personal information, financial information,
medical information and social information
✔✔Personal/Financial Information - ✔✔Includes insurance data, marital status, next of
kin, and other items collected for personal identification
✔✔Medical Information - ✔✔Includes the chief complaint, family/patient medical history,
results of exams, physical exam form, lab reports, etc.
✔✔Social Information - ✔✔Includes items such as race, ethnicity, hobbies, lifestyle
choices
✔✔Self-Insure - ✔✔A method in which the employer pays directly for the employees
medical bills
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔Federal program for patients that are either over the age of 65,
disabled, or considered end-stage renal disease patients
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Unique Patient Identifier (UPI) - ✔✔Links all clinical observations, tests, procedures,
villains, evaluations, and diagnoses to the patient
✔✔Clinical Vocabularies - ✔✔Set a common definitions for medical terms that ease
communication by decreasing uncertainty
✔✔SNOMED-CT - ✔✔Clinical vocabulary designed to encompass all trends used in
medicine
✔✔LOINC - ✔✔Trends and codes used for electronic exchange of lab results and
clinical observations
✔✔UMLS - ✔✔Thesaurus database of medical terms
✔✔Fixed Appointment Scheduling - ✔✔One patient is scheduled for a specific
appointment time
✔✔Cluster Scheduling - ✔✔Scheduling a group of patients cooking in for the fake tour
of service should be scheduled around the same block of time
✔✔Double Booking - ✔✔Two patients are scheduled to see the same physician at once
✔✔Wave Scheduling Method - ✔✔Patients are scheduled for the first half of each hour,
and each patient is seen in the order they arrive
✔✔Narrative Style Charting - ✔✔Physicians dictate notes about patients care, then
gave rise notes transcribed and placed in the patients chart
✔✔SOAP - ✔✔Subjective, objective, assessment, plan
, ✔✔Subjective - ✔✔Any information that the patient provides including chief complaint,
or comments made during an examination
✔✔Objective - ✔✔Information based on observations made by the physician or medical
assistant (lab results, vital signs)
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔A brief summary of the patients symptoms, and may often include
a diagnosis as well as a list of other possible diagnoses
✔✔Plan - ✔✔Consists of any information regarding the prescribed plan of action for a
patient (prescriptions, instructions, referrals)
✔✔Problem Oriented Medical Record (POMR) - ✔✔Charting that tracks patients
problems during the time they are receiving medical care
✔✔Progress Notes - ✔✔Daily chart notes which are used to record any information that
Irish to the various stages of a patients condition
✔✔Flow Chart - ✔✔A visual aid used to keep track of information over a period of time
✔✔Alphabetic Filing System - ✔✔Information is filed according to the patients last name
✔✔Numeric Filing System - ✔✔Information regarding each patient is stored used a
number, instead of the last name
✔✔A Medical Record Contains... - ✔✔Personal information, financial information,
medical information and social information
✔✔Personal/Financial Information - ✔✔Includes insurance data, marital status, next of
kin, and other items collected for personal identification
✔✔Medical Information - ✔✔Includes the chief complaint, family/patient medical history,
results of exams, physical exam form, lab reports, etc.
✔✔Social Information - ✔✔Includes items such as race, ethnicity, hobbies, lifestyle
choices
✔✔Self-Insure - ✔✔A method in which the employer pays directly for the employees
medical bills
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔Federal program for patients that are either over the age of 65,
disabled, or considered end-stage renal disease patients
