In this online world we live in, there’s a wealth on information available on the Web that can prove beneficial to medical assistants. It doesn’t matter if you’re a student still studying to become a medical assistant, a recent graduate looking for a medical assisting job or a working medical assistant who needs a little […]
You might be familiar with the tasks medical assistants could be expected to perform — both clinical and administrative — but do you know what they can’t do? Generally speaking, medical assistants are prohibited from examining, diagnosing, providing medical advice to or treating patients. They do no practice medicine and thus cannot make assessments or […]
If you’re thinking about becoming a medical assistant, you might know what duties will be expected of you when you land a job, but you might not realize just how much of each duty you’ll be performing each day. Well, thanks to a survey conducted by the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) of almost […]
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 […]
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 […]
