Charter College Pasco Campus
This paper will examine the reasoning I have for wanting to become a medical assistant. I have wanted to be many things since I have graduated and I have also changed my mind a time or two. I think I have finally found what I want to be in life and I want to become an OBGYN. I feel that by becoming a medical assistant I will get my foot in the door. By getting my foot in the door I will be on my way to success I am very excited to learn the different aspects of the medical field and how they all work together.
Why Do I want to be medical assistant? I want to be medical assistant because my mom has been working as a CNA for the last 20 years. I have followed in her footsteps for the last 5 years. I have worked at a memory care facility. In that facility I cared for ten residents with dementia and Alzheimer’s. While working there I learned how to administer medication, perform activities of daily living such as bathing feeding and dressing the residents. I am very companionate about working with people.
I feel that by becoming a medical assistant I will be able to learn how to interact with different types of people and people from different cultures and backgrounds. I am looking forward to learning about how the billing cycle for medical bills and how and why different medical services cost more than others. I am also looking forward to learning the different jobs that a medical assistant can do. By working as a medical assistant I will be able to identify the different codes that physicians use to make diagnosis for patients.
Medical assisting has four major categories of the job just to name a few there are clerical medical assistants, administrative medical assistants, and clinical medical assistants, and specialist medical assistants. Each of these job titles has its own differences and similarities. When you are out the looking for a job in the medical assisting field you might