Student Medical Assistant Skills

Assessing MA Student Skills

Along with the responsibility of training and supervising their medical assistants, the medical assistant's employer must also take on responsibility for adequate quality control when assigning tasks, especially in the back office's clinical areas.

Get this FREE Career Information Kit As you already know, working medical assistants, as well as recent graduates from vocational training programs should seek certification as soon as possible to succeed!

Different Avenues To Learn The Job

The path to success begins with your education and training. Formal training in a medical assisting program is NOT always required. There still are many employers, usually physicians with their own private practice, who prefer to train their medical assistants according to their specific needs. To reach proficiency in the profession approved training, clinical supervision, expert instruction and continued professional development is essential.

ATTENTION: It must be clearly understood that medical assistants MUST always stay within their scope of practice regardless of their level of training Medical assistants must practice ONLY methods and procedures that are commonly accepted in their profession, and in which they were properly trained. The student medical assistant's role and responsibilities must be clearly communicated, and performance should be periodically assessed.

On IV Therapy Training

Revised CAAHEP standards and guidelines for Medical Assisting Educational Programs indicate that the curriculum of an accredited program must now include the principles of IV therapy.

According to the AAMA, a medical assistant is allowed to place an IV line, initiate an IV line, and administer IV medications after having received PROPER training (ONLY!), and only as permitted by their particular state law.