Check Your Understanding (from End of Chapter questions) 1. To be successful as an MA, you must learn a specific: a. knowledge base. b. set of skills. c. set of behaviors. d. all of these ANS: d Analysis: a. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of behaviors to be successful. b. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of behaviors to be successful. c. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of behaviors to be successful. d. Correct. As an MA, you must learn all of these – a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of behaviors - to be successful. 2. All of the following are clinical skills EXCEPT: a. Filing patient records b. Phlebotomy c. Administering medications d. Wrapping instruments ANS: a Analysis: a. Correct. The filing of patient records is an administrative skill. b. Incorrect. Phlebotomy is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an administrative skill. c. Incorrect. Administering medications is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an administrative skill. d. Incorrect. Wrapping instruments is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an administrative skill.