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By Mark Stout The role of the medical assistant is to perform administrative
and clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians and other health
practitioners running smoothly. The administrative duties of a may
include answering telephones, scheduling appointments, filing medical
records, filling out insurance forms, arranging laboratory tests,
handling billing and office bookkeeping.Many also assist in various
clinical duties which are often regulated by local to state laws
and office policies.
Such clinical duties for an assistant may
include taking medical histories, recording vital signs, explaining
procedures to patients, preparing patients for examination and many
times assisting the physician during the patient examination. They
may assist in preparing laboratory specimens, perform basic laboratory
tests on the premises under the supervision of a physician, sterilizing
medical instruments and disposing of contaminated office supplies.
Some offices will have assistants instruct patients about medications,
discuss special diets, prepare,
telephone prescriptions to the local pharmacy,
prepare patients for x-rays, assist in the taking of electrocardiograms
(EKGs) and basic minor healthcare procedure such as dressing changes.
Although assistants are not licensed, some states require them to
take or state class before they can perform certain tasks such as
taking x-rays, EKGs or giving injections.Many medical assistants
are trained on the job, however often employers prefer to hire experienced
medical assistants or employees with formal training in the field.
They may take classes at local junior colleges, vocational schools,
technical career schools, healthcare institutions or online distance
education programs. In order to enable medical assisting personnel
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