Medical Assistant
Duties and responsibilities: Administrative
duties include: answering telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing
patients' medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling
correspondence, scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission and
laboratory services, and handling billing and bookkeeping.
Salary: 33,330
Education: According to the
American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA), www.aama-ntl.org, aspiring
medical assistants must graduate from a 2-year associate degree program in
medical assistance accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied
Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Accrediting Bureau of Health
Education Schools (ABHES). Graduates will be qualified to take the AAMA
certification exam to become Certified Medical Assistants (CMAs); the
certification must be renewed every five years.
Reflection: do you think you
would like to be one? Why? Why not?
I think that I wouldn’t and I would like to be a medical
assistant because I mean let’s be honest they don’t pay the best money but you don’t
have to go to school for that long to get the degree that you need to become a
medical assistant. It’s only like 2 years in college and the job looks kind of
interesting but at the same time the pay for that job just kills it.
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