Careers for Medical Assistants

Career Opportunities for Medical Assistants can seek entry level medical assisting employment in a variety of settings including:
hospital, clinic
doctor’s office
nursing home
medical supply business,
home healthcare agency
insurance company
dialysis centers
laboratories

Medical Assistants like spending time with patients, but they’re also capable of carrying out important office-type tasks. Change is constant, so they have to be comfortable doing different things each day. They also get along with people easily.
A Medical Assistant is like a referee–they’re one of the most important people in the building, but they often go unnoticed if they’re doing their job well.

A Medical Assistant (MA) is a multi-competent health care professional involving administrative and clinical task to keep the offices, clinics, and laboratories of physicians running smoothly. The duties vary from on office location, size, and specialty. In small practices, Medical Assistants usually are "generalists," handling both administrative and clinical duties and reporting directly to an office manager, or physician. Those in large practices tend to specialize in a particular area under the supervision of department administrators.