Medical Assistants Working as a Team

Teamwork

In any given medical specialty, everybody needs to work together as a team. There usually is a front office and the back office area which bring along a variety of different responsibilities. The medical assistant's work typically involves anything from answering phones and filing charts to cleaning a wound, setting up and cleaning an examination room, administering medications, to cleaning and wrapping instruments. 

Medical Assistants in a Group Practice

Additional responsibilities and considerations in a group practice make the challenges medical assistants face in the clinical and administrative areas more complex because they might be assigned to work with more than one doctor and see more patients in any given day than thry otherwise would in a smaller practice. An excellent understanding of the office's daily routine, the ability to work collaboratively with a number of different healthcare professionals to back the office's team is essential!

This is what Weisy1 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.