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What Does a Medical Assistant Career Entail?
Embark on your medical assistant career in two years or less. You don’t have to spend four years or more in school before you begin your career. If you attend a trade school to earn your degree or certificate, you’ll be able to land a job and begin working much more quickly.
Once you begin working, you’ll find that each day is very different. Depending on your specialization, if you choose one, you may have direct contact with patients or be handling mostly administrative tasks. Your role as a medical assistant may sometimes feel like you’re at the “bottom of the totem pole” but think about the amount and types of work you’ll handle; if you weren’t the person handling them, managers, nurses, and doctors would have to do them. In your role, you’ll help to make daily patient care processes run much more smoothly.
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