toughest time deciding what career path to choose‚ but I now believe that Medical Assisting is the best career path for me. Medical Assistants get to perform administrative and clinical duties under the supervision of a physician. Some of their duties include but are not limited to‚ recording patients’ medical history‚ preparing and maintaining examination rooms‚ collect blood‚ and authorize drug refills to pharmacies. A Medical Assistant can decide if they want to specialize in a particular area of interest
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of the Medical Assistant in Health Information Technology A certified Medical Assistant has a wide range of duties that are office and clinically related. And they are performed under the direction of a physician and or sometimes an office manager. On the administrative side a Certified Medical Assistant maintains medical records computer and handwritten charts depending on the office‚ handle insurance forms and billing‚ and arrange for hospital admissions and lab test. Certified Medical Assistants
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I am officially a Certified Medical Assistant and also working as one. Alaska Career College staff has been by my side throughout the whole program‚ given me an abundance of knowledge and skills that I feel very comfortable to be working in the outside world. I am currently working for Dr. Michael McNamara and Dr. Kevin Paisley; We also have three Physician Assistants. We are orthopedic specialists. For four years‚ I’ve been working as their Administrative Assistant/Front desk receptionist. I absolutely
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can have a significant impact on the quality of their appointment. Being a medical assistant requires not only medical knowledge but a significant amount of social skills as well – making the patient feel important and respected is essential to having return clients. While greeting the patient by name is imperative‚ finding out the patient’s preferred title will help them feel more comfortable and improve the patient-assistant relationship. For example‚ a woman named Jennifer Smith could be referred
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There are numerous ethical issues that a medical assistant may encounter in a daily office or hospital setting. It is unethical to have a conversation with a fellow coworker regarding a patient. The patient may overhear or worse they may be related to someone in the office. It is no one’s business as to why the patient had an appointment. Another unethical behavior that is unacceptable is foul language in front of the patients. They do not need to hear that kind of language under any circumstances
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information about medical assisting. Medical assisting is a very versatile job many different tasks and tools. This is one of the reasons I chose to start of in this field. I eventually would love to possibly get into and R.N program after a year or two in medical assisting. There are many responsibilities of a medical assistant. Assisting the physician with various procedure and treatments‚documenting patients information and updating charts ect. Some of the various thing a medical assistant will use in
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The way that the Medical Creed and Law and Ethics apply to my career‚ a medical assistant‚ is that as a person pursuing this career I should have a great deal of discipline. Not only because there will be many responsibilities but I also will be entrusted with the care and well-being of all my patients. Law and Ethics in the health care profession will help me perform at the highest possible level‚ providing proficient‚ kind care to patients. Also to help me avoid legal entanglements that can threaten
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specifically hired to perform. For example‚ if you are hired as a back office Medical Assistant‚ you will generally be expected to be able to perform front office Medical Assistant duties such as scheduling patients‚ calling and confirming appointments‚ copying files‚ faxing reports‚ referrals‚ and prescriptions. Basically‚ within the scope of your profession‚ it is an enormous asset to be able to perform many functions within a medical facility‚ especially a smaller one. People get sick‚ take vacations
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Goals and Expectations I think I learn best with explanations of some material on the board or also with some pictures or drawings that help me understand what’s going on or how something is composed is really helpful to me. Two learning techniques that are efficient to me are just reading material a couple of times and memorizing important things. I believe memorization is also very useful to me. A learning technique I would like
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A time I used sequence and precise was when I first started my job as a medical assistant. I had never done this job before. So I wrote down everything I was being shown. I also wrote down step by step directions on how to do things in the computer and what to do with each patient. I would ask questions over and over to clarify that I was doing it correctly. When I was being told how to do things I would ask for explanations as to why we did things a certain way. This helped me a lot when patients
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