Medical Assistant

Duties and responsibilities: A medical assistant takes and records a patient’s history and personal information. They measure vital signs, they help the physician with patient examinations, give patients injections as directed by the physician, schedule patient appointments, prepare blood for laboratory tests, and many more other things that require assisting a doctor or a person of a higher medical level.

Salary: $21,080-$41,570

Education:  To become a medical assistant you are supposed to take courses in biology, chemistry, and anatomy. Most medical assistants graduate from postsecondary medical programs. Some medical assistants have their high school diploma. There are no formal educational requirements in some states to become a medical assistant you may have to take certain classes or take a test.

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I think that I would want to be a medical assistant to start with so that  can see how being in the medical field is and to experience the many things that I would be seeing and experiencing if I go forward in the medical field. I think that the salary is not that bad and It would be good to work as a medical assistant temporarily.