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About This Apprenticeship
Medical assistants work in medical offices and outpatient care centers, including urgent care centers and surgical centers. They work with licensed health care and allied health care providers, including doctors, optometrists, podiatrists, chiropractors, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, nurses, radiology technicians, respiratory therapists, and office support staff (e.g., clerical office staff). Some medical assistants work in small medical practices that employ only a physician and a single medical assistant, and others work in larger medical practices and outpatient care centers (including those affiliated with hospitals).
Medical assistants work with licensed medical care providers in medical offices or other outpatient centers to maintain office records and equipment, schedule and participate in the examination and treatment of patients, perform basic diagnostic tests or medical procedures, and provide patient education and follow-up support.
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Assists medical professionals and patients during examinations and procedures.
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Software, Tools, or Technology
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Appointment scheduling software
Audiometers
Autoclaves
Baumanometers
Billing software
Binocular light compound microscopes
Blood chemistry analyzers
Blood collection vials
Bookkeeping software
Breathalyzers
Business software applications
Butterfly needles
Canes
Cast cutters
Centrifuges
Credit card readers
Crutches
Culturettes
Database software
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Dictation equipment
Dosimetry badges
eClinicalWorks
Electrocardiography EKG units
Electrocautery equipment
Electronic blood pressure measuring devices
Electronic medical record EMR software
Email software
Endotracheal ET tubes
Enema equipment
Epic Systems
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Evacuated collection tube holders/adapters
Flexible sigmoidoscopy equipment
Gait belts
GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
Handheld occluders
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Hearing aids
IDX Systems Patient Chart Tracking
Intradermal needles
Intramuscular needles
Intuit QuickBooks
Keratometers
Lancets
Laser printers
Lensometers
Manual blood pressuring measurement equipment
Mayo stands
Mechanical stethoscopes
Medical condition coding software
Medical procedure coding software
MEDITECH software
Metric rules
Microcapillary hematocrit tubes
Microscope slides
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS
Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Word
Nebulizers
Notebook computers
Opthalmoscopes
Otoscopes
Oxygen equipment
Oxygen masks
Oxygen tanks
Patient management software
Personal computers
Pipettes
Plethysmographs
Pulmonary function measurement equipment
Pulmonary nebulizers
Retinoscopes
Scanners
Single draw needles
Snellen eye charts
Spirometers
Splints
Spreadsheet software
Staple removers
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Suction machines
Suction tubing
Suture removers
Syringe needles
Syringes
Tablet computers
Tonometers
Tourniquets
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS units
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Visual electro diagnostic software
Vitalors
Walkers
Web browser software
Wheelchairs
Word processing software
X ray development equipment
X ray machines
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The CCPE Technical and Employability Competencies serve as quality indicators of an individual’s readiness to enter an industry or to pursue further education. Competency statements apply to current industry needs, contain both employability skills and technical skills, and leave opportunity for specialized training and career advancement.
Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information 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.
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
Phlebotomists are Medical Lab Technicians who draw and process blood and other biological samples for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. They may explain the procedure to patients and provide assistance if patients have adverse reactions after their blood is drawn.
Phlebotomists work in hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories, blood donor centers, doctors’ offices, and mobile phlebotomy services.
Because all blood samples look the same, phlebotomists must carefully identify and label each blood sample they have drawn and enter it into a database. In order to avoid causing infection and other complications, phlebotomists must keep their work areas and instruments clean and sanitary.
Phlebotomists are specialists at their craft and often represent the “face of the laboratory.”
Draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. May explain the procedure to patients and assist in the recovery of patients with adverse reactions.
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