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Are Your Graduates Emergency Prepared? In 2006, the Commission on Along with other allied health professions accrediting bodies within CAAHEP, the Curriculum Review Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants Endowment (CRB-AAMAE) provided responses to a survey regarding existing emergency preparedness education within accredited medical assisting programs. As you can guess, medical assisting Standards included many skills that could be applicable but a question remained as to how medical assistants could use these skills. Can your graduates answer the following questions?
Because it is the right thing to do, many of us respond to emergencies; however, preparedness includes knowing where our help is needed, how we can help and when we are needed. Being in the right place at the right time is as important as what you can do, in terms of responding. You and your students need to make arrangements before the emergency rather than responding after the fact. As a result, the CRB-AAMAE with CAAHEP is looking at how to incorporate Emergency Preparedness into Standards and Guidelines for Medical Assisting Educational Programs. CAAHEP has proposed, but not required, including language in the Standards, which reads, "The curriculum includes emergency preparedness consistent with the profession." The CRB-AAMAE will be reviewing the required medical assisting curriculum to ensure that graduates are prepared to assist with emergencies.
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