Medical Assistant

Duties and responsibilities:

The responsibilities of a medical assistant include answering telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing patients medical records, and much more interesting things. They also arrange examining rooms, and make sure they are always neat and clean. Their location varies from office to office depending on what they are assigned to do. Medical assistant basically just help assist people with their needs whether it's explaining treatment procedures to scheduling appointments, they can help you out.

      

Salary: $30,731- $35,985

Education:

To be a medical assistant you need to graduate a 2 year associate degree program in medical assistance. Then graduates are qualified to take the AAMA certification exam to become a certified medical assistant. However the certification need to be renewed every five years.

Demand for this profession:

The demand for this profession is growing much rapid than expected. Its is said to grow 23 percent from the years of 2014-2024.

Reflection:

I would like to become a medical assistant because to me it sounds like a really interesting job to be doing. It sounds like something I would do in the future. To me it is just really fascinating and fun to do as a job. Maybe some people would disagree with me and say they don't like this job but it doesn't really matter because I do.