Medical Assistant

Medical assistant are health care workers who perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of physician. They have two kinds of major duties, the administrative and clinical duties. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding for insurance. The clinical duties may include preparing patients for examination, recording the vital signs and medical histories of the patients, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Medical assistant work closely with doctor's and nurses to provide quality patient care. Medical assistant training includes learning how to take vital signs, get patient histories, collect specimens, get patients ready for procedures, and more. The medical assistant training typically provide exposure to the medical environment both in the classroom and on clinical training. In most cases this may include an externship to provide direct real world experience.

Medical Assistant now a days are very important in hospital duties. There is a shortage of medical assistant as of today and that is why there is a high demand and this will be expected to be one of the fastest growing occupations in the next 5 years.