Medical Assistant Assignment

Medical assistant is an allied health professional that supports the work of physicians, mainly in outpatient or ambulatory care facilities, such as medical offices and clinics. Medical assisting is one of the nation’s careers growing much faster than average for all occupations, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016 American Association of Medical Assistants). Medical assistants are trained to do administrative duties such as, using computer applications, greeting patients, answering phones, coding insurance, and handling billing and bookkeeping. They are also trained in clinical duties such as, authorizing prescription refill as directed, doing laboratory tests, collecting and preparing laboratory specimens, getting patients ready for exams, draw blood and removing sutures and replacing dressings. Some of the education requirements include taking such classes as; Medical Law and Bioethics, Medical Terminology, Pharmacology, Diseases of the Human Body, Medical Office Management, Medical Coding and Insurance, Online Professionalism in Health Care, Online Clinical Competencies (I, II, III), Human Anatomy and Physiology (I, II), and Online Medical Assisting Externship and Evaluation. (2016, Kaplan Higher Education, LLC). Graduates may be eligible to take the Registered Medical Assistant …show more content…
The personality traits listed for this job include helping people, teaching and talking. Paying attention to detail, dependability, integrity, cooperation, self-control, and stress tolerance are characteristics that help succeed at being a Medical Assistant. The results from the Interest Profiler showed that I was realistic, social, investigative, enterprising, artistic, and conventional. The two traits that stuck out the most to me were investigative and