Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Other names for Medical Assistants: Autopsy Assistant, Certifed Medical Assistant (CMA), Certified Coding Specialist, Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), Certified Ophthalmic Technician (COT), Certified Phlebotomy Technician, Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Chiropractic Assistant, Chiropractor Assistant, Clinic Assistant, Clinical Assistant, Clinical Medical Assistant, Clinical Office Technician, Doctor Assistant, Doctor's Assistant, Eye Technician, Health Unit Clerk, Hospital Clinic Assistant, Medical Assistant, Medical Billing Coder, Medical Billing Specialist, Medical Department Secretary, Medical Office Assistant, Medical Office Technician, Medical Office Worker, Morgue Attendant, Ocular Care Aide, Ophthalmic Aide, Ophthalmic Assistant, Ophthalmic Technician, Optometric Aide, Optometric Assistant, Optometric Technician, Optometrist Assistant, Optometry Assistant, Orthopedic Assistant, Orthopedic Cast Specialist, Outpatient Surgery Assistant, Phlebotomist, Physician's Aide, Podiatric Assistant, Podiatrist Assistant, Registered Medical Assistant, Respiratory Therapist Assistant, Sleep Technician, Sterile Processing Technician, Surgery Scheduler, Visual Training Aide,

• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics and information such as test results in medical records.
• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
• Collect blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
• Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets and physicians' instructions to patients.
• Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments and materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
• Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies.
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
• Schedule appointments for patients.
• Change dressings on wounds.
• Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic.
• Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
• Perform general office duties such as answering telephones, taking dictation or completing insurance forms.
• Inventory and order medical, lab, or office supplies and equipment.
• Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
• Set up medical laboratory equipment.
• Keep financial records and perform other bookkeeping duties, such as handling credit and collections and mailing monthly statements to patients.
• Operate x-ray, electrocardiogram (EKG), and other equipment to administer routine diagnostic tests.
• Give physiotherapy treatments such as diathermy, galvanics, and hydrotherapy.

• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Chemistry analyzers
• Non vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Alcohol analysers
• Butterfly needles
• Canes or cane accessories
• Cast cutters or saws
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Specimen collectors
• Dictation machines
• Medical radiation films or badges
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Endotracheal tubes
• Enema kits or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Phlebotomy trays or accessories
• Flexible endoscopes or accessories or related products
• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
• Eye occluders
• Hearing aids for the physically challenged
• Hypodermic needles
• Hypodermic needles
• Combination refractor keratometers
• Lancets
• Ophthalmic lensometers
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use or accessories
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Capillary or hematocrit tubes
• Microscope slides
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Notebook computers
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Audiometers or accessories
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Dropping pipettes
• Body plethysmographs
• Laser printers
• Bedside pulmonary function screeners
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Ophthalmic retinoscopes
• Scanners
• Blood collection needles
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Orthopedic splint systems
• Medical staple or clip removers
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Hypodermic needles
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Surgical suction or irrigation tubings or accessories
• Suture removers
• Medical syringes with needles
• Medical syringes without needles
• Tablet computers
• Ophthalmic tonometers or accessories
• Tourniquets
• Tuberculin syringes
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Walkers or rollators
• Wheelchairs
• Medical imaging wet darkroom or daylight processors
• Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use

Office suite software

Accounting software

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Spreadsheet software

Categorization or classification software

Data base user interface and query software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Operating system software

Electronic mail software

Network conferencing software