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Current Events : Spring 2008

AAMA News: Special Announcement:

As of January 2009, the AAMA Certification exam will be offered as computer-based testing. There are some specific issues that will need to be met to start this transition in the testing format. The most important is that the deadline for the January 2009 online testing is August 1, 2008. Please check with your MA program directors and AAMA directly to obtain the specifics. There will be a cost increase for the test, however, your results will be available much quicker that the current format.

AAMA Membership and Marketing Update:

Recently, Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, at the department of family medicine at UC San Francisco introduced a compelling new approach to primary care medicine. An article in the Annals of Family Medicine (5:457-461; 2007) entitled: “The Teamlet Model of Primary Care” explains how a medical assistant can function as a “health coach” and, along with another health coach and the physician, form a “teamlet” that acts to extend the 15 minute physician visit. The encounter is divided into four parts: a previsit by the “coach”, a visit by the clinician together with the coach, a postvisit by the coach, and between visits by the coach. You can read more in the full article at the Annals of Family Medicine website.

New officers all over!

All chapters have elected new officers! Watch the website for updates of chapter and state officers, and be sure to download a copy for your own reference in case you have questions or issues you need to discuss.

Many thanks to Cameron Willis, Polaris Consulting and Casey Feves, Sigma Solutions Web Design for creating the new face of OSMA with this website! You guys are great! Thank you so much!!

See you all at the OSMA Conference in April!

Joce Willis, CMA(AAMA), COHC
OSMA Website Coordinator
JocelynKWillis@Comcast.net