Health ProfessionsTest + Skills

Medical Assisting

A 50-question test spanning front-office and clinical medical assisting, then skills such as phone screening, patient registration, health history, vision screening and urine testing for the top scorers.

The AI judge does not score skill stations. Use the practice test for Round One.

About this event

Medical Assisting is a solo two-round event for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate divisions, sponsored by the American Association of Medical Assistants. Round One is a 50-question multiple-choice test in 60 minutes written from Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies (Blesi). The test plan is unusually even: eight areas at 10 percent each (anatomy and terminology, legal and ethical issues, office procedures, insurance and coding, infection control, specimens, diagnostic testing, clinical procedures and equipment, physical exams) plus communication (6 percent) and professionalism (4 percent). Top scorers advance to Round Two, a secret scenario drawn from eight skills: a telephone screening recorded on a message form (4 minutes), receiving a new patient and building an electronic chart (10), obtaining a health history (8), measuring an infant's head and chest circumference (5), preparing and assisting with a routine physical (6), screening visual acuity with Snellen and Jaeger charts (5), testing urine with a reagent strip (6), and sterile gloving (3). Bring barrier PPE, sterile surgical gloves and a manual watch with a second hand. A 70 percent skill score is required to place; test and skill scores are added and ties go to the higher test score.

Test day

What to expect

Round One test, then skill stations

Round One is a 50-question test in 60 minutes; the top scorers advance to Round Two, the skill stations. Official format: 50-question test, 60 minutes, then Round Two skill scenarios of 3 to 10 minutes each for top scorers.

Written from the test plan

Questions follow the event's published test plan, section by section, and are written from the listed reference texts. Practice questions here are drawn in the same proportions.

How you advance

How many advance from regionals to states and on to the International Leadership Conference (ILC) depends on your association's rules. Study the official test plan: it lists each section and its share of the test.

What judges score

Skill I: Perform a Telephone Screening (4 minutes)Skill II: Receive a New Patient and Create an Electronic Chart (10 minutes)Skill III: Obtain and Record a Patient Health History (8 minutes)Skill IV: Measure Head and Chest Circumference of Infant or Child (5 minutes)Skill V: Prepare/Assist with a Routine Physical Exam (6 minutes)Skill VI: Screen for Visual Acuity (5 minutes)Skill VII: Test Urine with Reagent Strip (6 minutes)Skill VIII: Sterile Gloving (3 minutes)

What's on the test

Professionalism · 4%Communication Skills · 6%Anatomy and Physiology and Medical Terminology · 10%Legal and Ethical Issues · 10%Office Procedures · 10%Health Insurance and Coding · 10%Infection Control · 10%Collecting and Processing Specimens · 10%Diagnostic Testing · 10%Clinical Procedures and Equipment · 10%Physical Examinations · 10%

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