Medical Assistants Working as a Team

The Medical Office Team

In any given medical specialty, everybody needs to work together as a team. Medical offices usually have a front office and the back office area which bring along a variety of different responsibilities divided into clinical and administrative tasks which typically involve anything from answering phones and filing charts, to cleaning a wound, setting up and cleaning an examination room, administering medications, and cleaning and wrapping instruments which all must be done hand in hand and synchronized with every member of the team for the office to stay on track and keep the patients happy. When it comes to medical office work everything is done as a TEAM.

Medical Assistants in a Group Practice

Additional responsibilities and considerations in a group practice medical assistants face in the clinical and administrative areas can be more complex because they might be assigned to work with more than one doctor at a time and see more patients in any given day. Swift thinking, adaptation, flexibility and the ability to work collaboratively with a number of different healthcare professionals is essential.

This is what Weisy1, a male medical assistant told us:

Sep 17th, 2007 - 10:41 PM
I work with mostly female RN's, LPN's, MA's, and CNA's in a hospital clinic based internal medicine. By and large our duties are equally distributed. I think that one of the advantages of working at a government facility is that a lot of emphasis is placed on gender equality. Of course, there are physical elements that may require male intervention - but by and large everybody pulls their load in our clinic.