Medical assistants help doctors and nurses with various medical and administrative duties. They may work in doctors’ offices, hospitals, or other health care facilities. Because there are so many different types of medical assistant – occupational therapy assistant and hospice care assistant, for example – this is a field that offers many choices in terms of a career path.

The duties and responsibilities of a medical assistant include checking patients into the facility, taking “vitals” like blood pressure and temperature, and updating and filing medical records and charts. Some medical assistants are also tasked with giving shots or helping out with insurance coding.

Most medical assistants work forty hours per week, five days a week. However, if the medical officer you’re working in has expanded hours and is open in the evening or on weekends, you’ll probably have to work these hours as well.

Medical assistants often have considerable variety in what they do because workers in this field are trained to perform both clinical and administrative tasks. CMAs can work almost anywhere they choose, but all medical assistants have unlimited choice when it comes to the medical specialty they want to work in.

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