Medical Assisting Programs: Freeing the Doctor’s Hand

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



THE MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Medical assisting is often confused with nursing. But while the job of a nurse may be considered as providing assistance to doctors, the field of medical assisting is entirely different from the nursing profession.

The confusion brought about by the term is very understandable because medical assisting can refer to so many things. However, in the strictest sense of the word, medical assisting refers to the administrative aspect of the doctor’s job, which more often than not, they are too busy to do themselves.

Medical assisting programs train you in the proper management of a clinic or a doctor’s office. The nature of a medical assisting job requires plenty of administrative work. These include processing and filing of insurance, archiving and organizing patient records, doing follow-up calls, updating billing files, and scheduling appointments. You will also prep the patient for any procedure that the doctor will be doing to them.

NOT JUST CLERICAL WORK

However, medical assisting is not just limited to paper work. That is why medical assisting programs also train you to assist in some diagnostic procedures such as the proper operation of various medical machines such as ultrasound, ECG, and X-ray machines, drawing blood, getting patient samples, taking vital signs, to mention a few. Mainly medical assisting programs are about supporting the doctor as he dispenses his everyday duties inside his clinic or office.

If you are certified in medical assisting, you have a lot of options in terms of what job to apply for. Aside from being a doctor’s assistant, you can also apply at rehabilitation centers, therapy clinics, chiropractic centers, reflexology clinics, and other organizations that are of similar nature.

Medical assisting is a very important job because as part of the support team, you enable the doctor to focus on doing his most important work – to treat his patients.


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