The first national association for medical assistants was ____. 

A. National Healthcareer Association
B. National Association for Health Professionals
C. American Association of Medical Assistants
D. National Center for Competency Testing
E. American Medical Technologists


C. American Association of Medical Assistants
The AAMA was officially created in 1956 at an American Medical Association meeting, one year after being suggested at the 1955 state convention of the Kansas Medical Assistants Society.

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