Medical Assistants
Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.
Also called: Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), Chiropractor Assistant, Clinical Assistant, Medical Assistant (MA)
Knowledge:
- customer service
- administrative services
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- talking to others
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- understanding people's reactions
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Self Control
- Stress Tolerance
Technology:
- Medical condition coding software
- MEDITECH software
- Billing software
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Email software
- Microsoft Exchange
Education:
certificate after high school
