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Medical Assistants In High Demand : Looking for a new career
in the health care industry? You might want to consider becoming
a medical assistant. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, employment of medical assistants is expected to
grow much faster than the average
for all occupations through the year 2012. They say that the
increasing use of medical assistants across all rapidly growing
health care industries will result in fast employment growth
for this occupation. In fact, medical assistants is projected
to be the fastest growing occupation over the 2002–12
period. The health services industry is expanding because
of technological advances in medicine, and a growing and aging
population. Due to the expansion and growth in group practices,
hospitals, medical centers, clinics, and healthcare
facilities, many more support personnel will be needed, especially
medical assistants who will be able to handle both administrative
and clinical duties. What do Medical Assistants do?
Medical assistants perform routine administrative and clinical
tasks. They provide much needed daily assistance to keep the
doctors, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health care
offices running efficiently and smoothly. Their duties will
vary from office to office, depending on the location and
size of the practice and the practitioner’s specialty.
In small practices, medical assistants usually are
generalists, who would handle both administrative and clinical
duties and report directly to an office manager, physician,
or other healthcare practitioner.
Those in large practices tend to specialize in a particular
area, under the supervision of department administrators.
Some of the many administrative duties performed include answering
telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing patient
medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling correspondence,
scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission
and laboratory services, and handling billing and bookkeeping.
The clinical duties performed would vary according to State
law and may include taking medical : (
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