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What Is A Medical Assistant?

Medical assistants keep the offices of doctors, medical centers, and clinics running smoothly. Depending upon their employers needs, they can perform clerical, administrative, or clinical functionsor all three. Their duties vary by office type, location, and size of practice.
In small practices, medical assistants usually perform administrative and clinical tasks. In large practices, where there may be several medical assistants, they tend to specialize in a particular area. There are generally three types of medical assistants - clerical, administrative and clinical assistants.

Clerical Medical Assistants
Clerical medical assistants perform routine duties that are repetitive but are, nonetheless, essential to the smooth running of any office. They answer phones, schedule appointments, greet patients, sort mail, and type the doctors letters and memos.

Administrative Medical Assistants
Administrative medical assistants tend to handle tasks that are medical-related. They submit medical claim forms, update patient files, schedule medical tests, and arrange for hospital admissions. They also frequently do the billing and the bookkeeping for the medical facility or practice. Finally, they can (and often do) assume any or all of the general clerical duties within the office.

Clinical Medical Assistants
The job description of clinical medical assistants depends upon the laws of their specific states. Their role is more highly medical-related than are clerical or administrative medical assistants. The tasks of clinical medical assistants may include preparing patients for examinations, taking medical histories, and assisting the physician during the examination. They may also explain medical procedures to patients, call in prescriptions to pharmacies, collect laboratory specimens, and sterilize medical instruments. They may even draw blood, remove sutures, and take electrocardiograms.

What You Will Learn In This Medical Practice Assistant Training

The fundamentals of patient reception and service
The procedures and paperwork involved in patient visits and record-keeping
The importance of management skills
Bookkeeping and Accounting systems
The anatomical features of the human body
The importance of cells and genetics
How muscles work
The function of the nervous system
The functions of medical specialists
What is involved in the steps of medical diagnosis
Advice for patients visiting a doctor, using medicines, stocking a medicine cabinet, staying in hospital and coping with anaesthesia and surgical operations
The derivation of common medical terminology
The principles involved in Emergency First Aid
The uses and abuses of prescription and non-prescription drugs

Who Will Benefit From This Medical Practice Assistant Diploma?

This Medical Practice Assistant course is developed to benefit any individual who is currently working in the Medical field who wants promotion at work

any student who cannot afford to go to university to study but wants to acquire more knowledge and understanding in this specific working environment and thus making them employable.

What Award Will I Have After I Have Completed My Medical Practice Assistant Diploma?

The Oxbridge Academy Medical Practice Assistant Diploma is a career-orientated skills programme which is provider developed and assessed. After completion of this diploma the student will show competence in the area of Medical Practice Assistant.

Oxbridge Academy also offers the following skills diplomas in the Medical field:

Oxbridge Skills Diploma Pharmacist Assistant (DIP4068-08)
Oxbridge Skills Diploma Dental Practice Assistant (DIP4042-09)
Oxbridge Skills Diploma Veterinary Surgery Assistant (DIP4067-09)

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