If you’re a medical assistant looking to become professionally certified, there are a number of options offered by various certification organizations, each of which is considered valid and respectable within the medical assisting field. All of the major certifications require you to pass an exam, but each has its own specific guidelines and processes. Here’s a look at the basic information for each certification.
If you’re considering entering the medical assisting field, one of the first questions you might want to research is how much room for advancement there is in the job. Depending on whom you ask, the answer might seem a bit disconcerting. “There is no hope for advancement,” one website declares. “There is little room for advancement,” another one states. But before you abandon this career path altogether, know that the truth about advancement in medical assisting is not quite so clear cut and not nearly as depressing as this sounds. Continue reading →
Mind the gap. The latest beauty trend amongst teenage girls and young women around the globe is the desire to achieve a so-called “thigh gap,” a space between the upper thighs that’s visible even when standing with your legs straight and your knees together. It’s a rapidly growing fad that has inspired countless websites, how-to articles, Twitter posts and Tumblr photos.
It seems like there’s a smartphone app for everything nowadays, and apparently that applies even to duties performed by medical assistants. With apps like the ones listed below, it’s not hard to imagine a not-so-distant future in which smartphones are standard medical assistant tools used to check patients’ vitals. Indeed, chances are one or more of these could (at least theoretically) help make your job as an MA easier at some point during your career. Welcome to the 21st century!
Millions of us suffer from allergies, so when Phoenix’s Joe Nagy developed a runny nose one day, he didn’t think too much of it. It started out innocent enough, with a nose drip that would occur once or twice a week, but the frequency began to increase until eventually it was an everyday affair. As the months passed, Nagy began in vain to take allergy medicine and would carry tissues with him all the time, but that didn’t prevent him from dealing with the embarrassment of the times when he couldn’t reach them fast enough to prevent his nose from dripping in public. Finally, a year and a half later, he decided that enough was enough and visited a doctor. The ear, nose and throat specialist tested the clear liquid Nagy had assumed all along was mucus, but to his shock, it turned out be brain fluid. Continue reading →
