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arrange for hospital admissions and laboratory
services. They also perform tasks less specific to medical settings,
such as answering telephones, greeting patients, handling correspondence,
scheduling appointments, and handling billing and bookkeeping. Medical
assistants also may arrange examining room instruments and equipment,
purchase and maintain supplies and equipment, and keep waiting and
examining rooms neat and clean.
According to the United States Department of Labor, employment for
this filed is projected to grow much faster than average, ranking
medical assistants among the fastest growing occupations over the
2006-16 decade. Job opportunities should be excellent, particularly
for those with formal training or experience.
In most cases a medical assistant is a none
licensed health care professional and they are trained in a variety
of way. Many receive informal on the job type of training while
others learn the basics of a medical practice and patient care in
a more formal setting such . Formal training for medical assistants
may occur at a local junior college, vocational school, high school
technical classes, local hospital or online distance education programs.
A good example of newer innovativeMedical
Assistant School training is available at St. Augustine
School of Medical Assistants, an educational service that uses internet
based technology to train medical assistants online with a comprehensive
distance education program .St. Augustine Medical Assistant School
Medical Assistant http://www.medassistant.org
by Dr. Stout, Director of Medical Assistant Education
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