1. Would you like a health career with opportunities for significantly varied responsibilities?

Medical Assistant are trained to perform tasks in three major areas of the medical office: administrative tasks, including medical transcription, insurance billing and coding, and medical record maintenance, patient care tasks, including taking patient histories and vital signs, and assisting with the performance of diagnostic procedures and treatments, and basic laboratory testing, including the collection and performance of waived laboratory tests.

2. Would you like a health career that typically does not require weekend, night, or holiday work?

Medical Assistants often choose to work in physician offices without weekend, shift, or holiday work. Of course, positions with more varied hours may also be available at clinics or hospitals.

3. Are you interested in a curriculum with limited mathematics and no chemistry or physics requirements?

The Medical Assistant Curriculum requires only the successful completion of MAT 090. Check with your advisor to find out if our high school courses or placement test exempt you from this requirement. There is no chemistry or physics requirement.

4. Would you like to work in a doctor's office or clinic as part of a health care team?

Doctor's offices or outpatient clinics are the type of practice chosen most often by Medical Assistant graduates.

5. Would you find caring directly for patients fulfilling?

Medical Assistants take medical histories and vital signs, explain treatment procedures to patients, prepare patients for examination, and assist the healthcare provider during the examination procedure.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.