Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Medical Secretaries

Answer telephones and direct calls to appropriate staff.

Schedule and confirm patient diagnostic appointments, surgeries, or medical consultations.

Greet visitors, ascertain purpose of visit, and direct them to appropriate staff.

Transmit correspondence or medical records by mail, e-mail, or fax.

Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files.

Receive and route messages or documents, such as laboratory results, to appropriate staff.

Interview patients to complete documents, case histories, or forms, such as intake or insurance forms.

Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records.

Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.

Epic Systems

Medical procedure coding software

MEDITECH software

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance CMS Secure Net Access Portal C-SNAP

Addressing software

Google Docs

Microsoft Word

Accounts receivable software

Allscripts Professional PM

Billing software

Intuit QuickBooks

Data entry software

Database software

dBASE Plus

Microsoft Access

Email software

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Outlook

Corel WordPerfect Office Suite

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Web browser software

IDX Groupcast

Scheduling software

Microsoft Excel

Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale

Photocopying equipment

Credit card processing machines

Hospital intercom equipment

Laptop computers

Switchboards

Dictaphones

Multi-line telephone systems

Laser facsimile machines

Medical Secretaries & Administrative Assistants

Medical Secretary 

You don't know anything about the medical field, they can do it without you, you're not needed.

Amanda Grace

Medical Secretary

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Business

Helping People

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Amanda Grace

Medical Secretary

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Business

Helping People

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

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