Medical Assistant
As a Medical Assistant, you will be an integral part of the health care delivery team. In this position, you are considered a "multi-tasked" provider. This means you will be trained and qualified in both clinical and administrative capacities.
Medical Assistants work closely with doctors in clinics and physician's offices. You will be entrusted with a variety of critical responsibilities.
Administrative skills and responsibilities include scheduling and receiving patients, preparing and maintaining medical records, performing basic secretarial skills and medical transcription, handling telephone calls and written correspondence, serving as a liaison between physicians and other individuals, and managing practice finances.
Clinical responsibilities include taking patient histories and vital signs, performing first aid and CPR, preparing patients for procedures, assisting the physician with examinations and treatments, infection control, collecting and processing specimens, performing selected diagnostic tests, and preparing and administering medications as directed by the physician.
What skills will I learn?
- CPR
- Taking patient histories
- Take and read vital signs
- EKGs
- Venipunctures (drawing blood/Phlebotomy)
- Assist in cast application and removal
- Assist in minor surgery
- Instrument usage
- Patient preparation
- Basic lab procedures
- Perform diagnostic procedures
Where can I work?
- Generally Medical Assistants work in ambulatory settings, such as medical offices and clinics.
- You may work in the front office (patient records to insurance procedures).
- Hospitals
- Medical supply
- Home health agencies
- Insurance companies
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