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Society of Medical Assistants

A group of “trained on the job” medical assistants from Kansas City known as the “Society of Medical Assistants of Kansas City” initiated a gathering of medical assistants from different States in America to form an organization now known as American Association of Medical Assistants. The gathering was attended by seventy-eight representatives from fifteen States across America. A year later the charter meeting was attended by 250 medical assistants.
In the present days, because of the high demand of certified medical assistants, the American Association of Medical Assistants formed society of medical assistants on almost every state in the United States of America. And with the formation of the society of medical assistants, the American Association of Medical Assistants were able to keep track of its members (the certified medical assistants) and keep the abreast of the latest development and changes in the health care service industry.
A society for medical assistants is created for many different purposes. The most essential purpose is to enable the professionals of the medical assisting profession to develop and demonstrate their knowledge, expertise, wisdom and professionalism that patients and employers need. A society of medical assistants is also responsible for the protection of the medical assistant’s right to practice. The society of medical assistant is responsible for the promotion of effective health care service and efficient health care delivery by using the most advantageous means and skills of a certified medical assistant.
All of the societies of medical assistants under the American Association of Medical Assistants must uphold professional identity and importance of its members in the medical assistance industry by educating them and giving additional credentials.
Each society of medical assistants has their own code of ethics in supporting its members. Not only does a particular society of medical assistant assist medical assistants on their own state, it will also try to assists medical assistants from another state depending on the situation. For example, if a certain member of a particular society of medical assistants is looking for employment opportunity, the society will help the medical assistant in landing a job.
These societies of medical assistants provide positive awareness to its members. Each of these societies of medical assistants is a non profit organization. They help keep the certification status of their members by recertifying them by making them acquire sixty continuing education units (contact hours) or letting them retake the initial certification examination every five years. There are lots of ways in attaining these credits for recertification. A member can either attend CMA meetings, conventions and seminars.
In some states, medical assistants are required to have an authorization by the state; thereby authorizing the medical assistant in performing allergy test, needle injections, etc.

Social Security Numbers – What’s Really Behind It

The SSN / Social Security Numbers is a 9-digit coding primarily composed of three-parts with the part consisting of 3-numbers, the second part 2, and the last part 4-numbers. These numbers are subject to ‘decoding’ and a myth goes from time-to-time that the Social Security Numbers are a key to a person’s date and place of birth as well as race. Yet while the Social Security Number of one person signifies so much about his status, the numbers in his Social Security card doesn’t in-itself mean so much than intended.

The Social Security Numbers was created back in 1936 as program administrators needed some way to organize their Social Security filing cabinets into sub-groups. And because there were no computers and all the records were stored in filing-cabinets, they needed a schema that would make things more manageable – the main objective of Social Security Numbers. And while it is true that each SSN belongs to a distinct person therefore also having distinct identifying information, none of these information are encoded in the Social Security Number itself. Because the application form for a Social Security Number asks for the applicant’s record information like birth date and place, parents’ names and optionally race, most people think that these are immediately reflected in their numbers. However a greater factor contributing to this misconception is the fact that people don’t know anything about the real indication behind their Social Security Numbers.
The first part of the SSN is called the Area Number. The Area Number determines the geographical-area where the Social Security Number was issued and not necessarily the area where a person was born. Also neither that the Area Number in a person’s SSN necessarily imply the place where the card-holder holds permanent residence, although the SSA has based the Area Number on the ZIP code of a person’s mailing address since 1972. It is only coincidental if a person’s mailing address (ZIP), permanent residence, and/or his birth place are all one and the same therefore reflected in the Area Number in his Social Security Number. What the public could notice however is that people on the east-coast have the lowest numbers and those on the west-coast have the highest numbers. This is because the Social Security (Area) Numbers were assigned beginning in the northeast moving towards the westward regions.
The second part of the SSN is called Group Number.  Since it is called Group Number, most people think that the 2-digits designate the card-holder according to group/racial categories identifiable by particular (group) numbers. The numbers however are solely for administrative reasons. The group numbers issued first consist of ODD numbers 01-09, then, EVEN numbers 10-98, and then EVEN ‘groups’ 02-08, followed by ODD ‘groups’ 11-99. Within each area, the group numbers range from 01-99 and are intentionally not assigned in consecutive order.
The last 4-digits called Serial numbers also don’t have any bearing on a person’s race. It runs consecutively from 0001-9999 specifying group numbers.