Medical Assistant :: Online Medical Assistant Classes
Online medical assistant classes are now available at St. Augustine Medical Assistant School. Medical assistants perform routine administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices and clinics of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and optometrists running smoothly.
The Medical Assistant is a link between health care providers and their patients, their professional associates, and the suppliers of equipment and medications. The Medical Assistant is the team member who assists the qualified provider in the office or other medical setting, performing administrative and/or clinical duties.
Demand for the Medical Assistant may also occur in business or industrial health centers, health insurance companies and emergency care centers. The Medical Assistant has a wide range of duties supportive to the provider’s practice. Business/administrative duties include scheduling and receiving patients, obtaining patient information, maintaining medical records, maintaining supplies and equipment, and assuming responsibility for office care, insurance matters, office accounts, fees and collections. Medically related duties include assisting with examinations and treatments, taking health histories, performing certain diagnostic tests, carrying out laboratory procedures and sterilizing instruments and equipment.
As a medical assistant, you will be responsible for performing a wide variety of administrative and medical/clinical duties that are likely to include scheduling and receiving patients, handling phone calls, preparing correspondence and medical reports, processing insurance forms and scheduling surgery.
Medical assistants also prepare examining rooms, assist with examinations and treatments, take medical histories, check vital signs, perform routine lab tests, draw blood, take electrocardiograms, give injections and sterilize equipment.
Positions vary from performing a variety of duties in a private physician's office to working in a specific area of a clinic or hospital.
