Clinic Manager Duties

A day in the life of a clinic manager can be exciting, stressful, rewarding, and everything in between. The job of a clinic manager is to oversee the function of the clinic they are in charge of. This does not only mean to make sure tasks run smoothly, but also to make sure their employees and patients are satisfied as well. A clinic manager will also take on other roles such as hiring new employees and firing current employees when need be. Clinic Managers are also in charge of overseeing the medical billing process, ordering medical equipment, leading staff meetings, and negotiating insurance contracts. In a sense the work of a clinic manager never ends, they are always busy (Top Masters in Healthcare Administration, 2017).
Educational requirements
for becoming a clinical manager include having a bachelor’s degree from a college that has accreditation with a major in business or management preferably. Another option that can be considered is obtaining your master’s degree in your major; this gives you more education as well as more experience in your chosen field. Starting out, most clinics want to see at least 5 years of past clinic experience. The clinic experience does not always have to be working the floor of a medical practice. If you want to move further up the ladder you could become a Certified Physician Practice Manager, or a Certified Medical Manager; both are extra credentialing to add on to your experience. These credentials do also require you to pass a 200-question exam (Top Masters in Healthcare Administration, 2017)
Everyone has different personality traits, some of them will work well in healthcare, but others might need some work.
By completing the personality profile in the learning profile, I learned that the traits I have are, being realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (My Next Move, 2017). To be a clinic manager, the main traits that I am going to use are being social, realistic, and conventional. These traits are going to help me solve complex problems in the best way possible. Within these traits being social will especially help me to run staff meetings and help my voice be heard, it will also help me to recruit new employees. One of the traits that stood out to me that needs work is my artistic trait. Working on my artistic trait will help me to brainstorm new policies and procedures, as well as coming up with more patient friendly environments such as brighter patient rooms, or kid friendly ER waiting
rooms.
My career goal is to one day be a clinic manager, I want to be able to say that I can provide a well-functioning positive clinical setting for not only my patients, but my employees.
I want to be able to take the mistakes I have seen from past managers I have had and learn from those; I want to be able to go to work and make a difference. I believe that when you work in a managerial position, you cannot let the title get ahead of you. You must remember that the way you treat your workers is the way they are going to work for you. If you treat them poorly, they are going to work poorly. If you treat them with respect and compassion, they will give your company the
same.
The Kaplan University Career Services have many ways they can help me obtain my goals. Some of these include job-search support, resume and or cover letter assistance, as well as holding a mock interview with Kaplan before I have a real one. Having these services at my fingertips are not only going to help me in my job search and preparation, but they will help me becoming a better potential employee. The great thing about the Kaplan University Career Services is that they are here for their students and alumni! Students can come back to Kaplan for help finding a new job, or receive advice on how to deal with tough situations they might be dealing with at their job and find solutions to deal with it. I feel very fortunate to have this free service provided to me, and I plan to use it in the upcoming years to make sure I have the best chance at succeeding in my new career.
In five years, I see myself graduated with my bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration and working full time as a clinic manager. I want to be prepared to do my best in my chosen position by educating myself in this field. I will be able to make a difference in the lives of my staff and the lives of the patients I encounter. I hope to go on and pursue my master’s degree to become even more educated in my field, I want to have all the skills I need to successfully run a clinic. I know that with the tools I learn at Kaplan I will be able to put my best foot forward in my career and help others succeed.