Medical Assistant Review

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Essential Medical Assistant Skills

When working in a medical office, or similar facility, such as a clinic, or wellness center, all skills are essential: clinical skills in the back office, and administrative tasks in the front go hand-in-hand and keep the workflow going.

What Should Medical Assistants Know?

Medical assistsants, whether new or seasoned in the field should take every opportunity to enhance, solidify, and further their knowledge and skills in order to remain efficient and competitive in our modern and rapidly advancing healthcare system.

Medical assistants often do patient intake, check patient records, takes vitals, medical history, EKGs, spirometry, immunizations, blood draws, charting, orthopedic fittings such as walking shoes, knee braces, ankle braces, wrapping of injuries, order supplies, glucometer calibration, crash cart inventories, and often assist in x-ray area lab area when needed.

To reinforce basic concepts concerning the multi-disciplinary aspects of medical assistant duties we offer the following self-study reviews:

• Eureka!!! Greek for: “I have found!”
  
  A list of prefixes, suffixes and root words from the Greek and Latin language that are now also very common in medicine, particularly medical terminology.
• What is a SOAP Note?
  
  Understanding the SOAP note and its objectives: The SOAP note is written to improve communication. Medical documentation of patient complaints...
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