medical assistants
Healthcare support staff
Medical assistants are healthcare workers who perform clinical and administrative tasks in doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals.
They take vital signs, prepare patients for examination, draw blood, give injections, schedule appointments, and handle medical records.
The role requires less training than nursing but more than clerical work—typically a certificate or associate degree.
The medical assistant showed me to the exam room and took my blood pressure.
- injectionsSyringe-administered doses
- phlebotomyExtracting blood medically
- blood pressure cuffDevice measuring cardiovascular force
- certifiedOfficially declared valid
- clinical skillsPatient care techniques
doctor · patient education · wound care · sterile technique · scheduling · externship · nurse · healthcare team · billing · clinics · patient · exam room · front office · back office · EKG · chart · stethoscope · hospitals
- middle classteachers, nurses, office workers, secretaries, postal workers
medical assistantschief of medicine
Hospital's top physician
physicians · surgeons · attending physicians · department heads · doctors