Medical Assistant Duties

Medical assistants are respected members of the healthcare team. They deliver the caring touch within the confines of a medical office and make a difference by helping people from all backgrounds, ages, and walks of life!

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Medical Assistant Duties...

Medical Assistant Work Statistics

Medical assistants held about 329,000 jobs in the year 2000. Sixty percent worked in physicians' offices; 15 percent worked in hospitals, including in- and outpatient facilities. The rest were employed in nursing homes, offices of other health practitioners and other healthcare facilities. About 62 percent of medical assistants work in offices of physicians. Some medical assistants are trained on the job, but many complete 1-year or 2-year programs. Employment is projected to grow much faster than average, ranking medical assistants among the fastest growing occupations over the 2006-16 decade. Job prospects should be excellent. (U.S. Bureau of Labor).

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Significant Points...

Medical assistants function in an administrative capacity in the front office area, or in a clinical role in the so-called back office area.

About 6 out of 10 medical assistants work in offices of physicians

Some medical assistants are trained on the job, but many complete 1- or 2-year programs in vocational-technical high schools, postsecondary vocational schools, and community and junior colleges

Medical assistants is projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations over the 2004-2014 period

Job prospects should be best for medical assistants with formal training or experience, particularly those with certification

The Medical Assistant's Main Duties

The Medical Assistant must provide proper care and appropriate counsel to patients who come to medical offices or ambulatory clinics, treatment facilities and hospitals, while exhibiting courtesy, conscientiousness, and a general businesslike manner at all times. They keep examination rooms and administrative areas of the medical office safe and clean. They accommodate the special needs of patients with disabilitiesm and the elderly patients, especially those in wheelchairs, crutches, or walkers. They sort, file, and organize patient's medical records, and handle the office's mail, typing, copying, faxing, and telephone calls.

The Medical Assistant's Clinical Duties

Medical assistants often take medical histories and record vital signs, explain treatment procedures, set up the examination room, and assist the doctor during medical procedures and exams. They may remove sutures, or change wound dressings, collect body fluid and other specimens, draw blood, and preserve and package them to be sent to the lab, or perform instant screening tests right on the premises. They also are responsible for the proper disposal of contaminated medical supplies and sterilization of used instruments and are expected to provided basic instructions about medications and special diets, call in medication refills to the pharmacy and administer medications as prescribed. Last but not least they often are asked to set up electrocardiograms, or administer visual screening tests.

Readiness for Emergencies

A medical assistant should be familiar with fire regulations and know what to do in any other unforeseen emergency, or disaster. They should know how to report a fire, use a fire extinguisher, and how to safely evacuate clients and patients. It is crucial for the medical office that the staff know how to handle an emergency.

Other Skills and Responsibilities

Medical assistants should be diligent when it comes to combating waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery; they have and obligation respect the law, never to abuse patients, and never to abuse controlled substances that they have access to; or to tolerate abuse by others. Another important area of support is to help simplify the the process of medical office administration, such as bookkeeping, accounting, billing, and coding. Here is a website for new Medical Assistants and those who need to brush up on their pharmacology or medical billing and coding skills!

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