Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical assistants work alongside physicians or ambulatory care facilities such as medical offices and clinics. Medical assistants are crossed trained to perform administrative and clinical duties. Some of the work they do is arranging hospital admissions and laboratory services, greeting patients, explaining medical treatments procedures to patients and many more.

Salary: $30,590

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. This course also opens up the widest path for future advancement; however, students wishing to enter the workforce more quickly may pursue a 1-year medical assistance program through a vocational school to receive a diploma or certificate, at which point they will be qualified for most entry-level medical assistant jobs.

DEMAND: The demand of the profession is going to increase  because with the population getting increasingly older needing medical assistants.

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