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Working as an administrative medical assistant requires no formal education. Learn about the training, job duties and certification to see if this is the right career for you.
The Certified Medical Assistant (AAMA)—or CMA (AAMA)—credential represents a medical assistant who has been credentialed through the Certifying Board (CB) of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA).
Medical assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners. Their duties vary with the location, specialty, and size of the practice. This information is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Medical office assistants aid medical practitioners in many areas of business in an office. They handle paperwork and deal with customers outside of the medical care provided. Medical office assistants provide a fair amount of customer service and they are often the people who greet patients when they walk into the office.
Medical transcriptionists listen to voice recordings that physicians and other healthcare professionals make and convert them into written reports. They may also review and edit medical documents created using speech recognition technology. Transcriptionists interpret medical terminology and abbreviations in preparing patients’ medical histories, discharge summaries, and other documents. This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This information is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the job of medical secreatry. Job duties: Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.
Americans visited the doctor’s office 1.2 billion times in 2012. That’s a lot of time that we spend at a hospital or clinic and the first person we usually see when we walk in the door is the receptionist. This is a job description giving the duties performed by the medical assistant.
