U.S. Department of Labor States the Demand for Medical
Assistants remains HIGH...
Medical assisting is a popular career choice for all who like working in a medical practice setting to help
people in their community with their medical and health concerns. The medical assistant profession has
also become the number one transitional career path of choice for nurse assistants, home health aides, and others
who have realized that they have arrived at a point where their career has run its course. Moving into the
medical assistant field provides them with new opportunities, better hours, and additonal
experience to advance in the health care field, and explore new horizons and goals.
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Careeer Path
The more you know about the medical assistant career, the better you are prepared! Establish real world goals,
and become the successful person you aim to be. Being successful means getting hired, achieving promotions, to
prosper, and being happy.
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More than 500,000 practicing physicians and hospitals in the USA
rely heavily on their medical assistant staff, and job offers open and close daily. However, where
so many are competing for the same positions, your future success (or failure!) depends largely upon your
ability to stand out from the rest, and convince employers that you are the professional
medical assistant they want.
Being a medical assistant is about caring for
people!
Medical Assistant Responsibilities
Medical assistants handle many facets of the daily medical practice routine. You find them either in the front
office's administrative, and reception area, or on the back office's clinical floors where they gather health
insurance information from patients, record their demographics, take their vital signs, prepare them for their
exams, organize medical records and paperwork, review medical charts, answer phones, respond to patient concerns,
route messages, and respond to any other situations typical for a busy medical practice. In addition, they are
expected to keep the doctors on schedule during their daily rounds, and open, and close the office when the day
ends.
Medical Assistant's Wages and Pay
 A Medical assistant is paid according to the level of education, specialty,
certification, and number of years of experience. Less than 1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-19 years, or 20+
years can make a big difference in pay. Those who work in a specialty office, or large treatment facility, also
earn more.
AND REMEMBER: The better
pay almost always go to those who are certified.
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