About the Career
If you’re looking for a rewarding career in healthcare administration, you’ll love being a Medical Office Assistant. Medical Office Assistants assist in preparing patients for physicians, surgeons and practitioners, and perform general office and medical office duties.
Medical Office Assistants perform a variety of administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians and other healthcare practitioners running smoothly. Typical job duties include measuring vital signs, preparing patients for physical exams, assisting pediatricians with children, preparing surgical trays, performing billing and bookkeeping, working with patient charts and data, and arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services.
Medical Office Assistants find in:
- Family practices
- Walk-in clinics
- Acute and non-acute care facilities
- Allied care facilities
- Private surgical centres
- In the offices of physiotherapists, chiropractors, podiatrists, naturopaths and more