Thursday, October 25, 2007

Your Role as a Medical Assistant..

...requires performance of both administrative and clinical duties; therefore helping in maintaining a smooth running and efficient, as well as, professional medical/heath related environment. While your assigned duties may vary, which will depend on the size of the location and the particular needs of the work place, you can expect to be called upon in a supporting role that may require you to fill in as necessary.

For example while working in an administrative need, you might by asked to help out by: greeting patients and answering the phones, maintaining, updating and filing medical records of patients, scheduling appointments, filling out insurance and bookkeeping. As a support person with clinical duties, you may be looking upon to: record patient's vital signs, assist the doctor during an examination, authorize drug refills as directed, sterilize medical instruments and properly dispose of contaminated supplies. While varying laws regarding the role of a medical assistant can vary from state to state, medical assistants are most often viewed as being competent generalists, who are capable of managing administrative and clinical assignments while reporting directly to an office manager, physician, or other health practitioner.

Please call Manhattan Institute at 212-564-1234 or visit us online or in person as our staff is available 7 days a week to help you explore training options to become a medical assistant



Friday, October 12, 2007

As A Medical Assistant...

...be prepared to work as a member of a team and, while completing your course of study at Manhattan Institute, gain an educational experience that will enable you to be more diverse. The medical assistant training course currently being offered by Manhattan Institute, is actually administered in two parts: Part one consist of a 20 week intensive classroom instruction period (all aspects of patient care complete with hands on demonstrations) – Part two, beginning immediately after classroom instruction, involves a 10 week, supervised externship, in a professional setting/healthcare facility where the student puts into practice what was taught during the 20 week instruction phase. Once both parts have been successfully completed, the graduating student will four diplomas from Manhattan Institute:

  1. Medical Assisting

  2. Medical Billing

  3. Phlebotomy

  4. Electrocardiography


With such intense instruction, supervised externship, and four distinct and recognized skills sets upon course completion/graduation, choosing Manhattan Institute as the place to start training for your new career as a medical assistant is the opportunity to get going in the right direction. For more information, please call 212-564-1234