Your questions about medical assistant

Wize Guy answers:

As a MA in a psych office you would not be seeing patients, so you would not need a psych degree; and a psych aid usually works in patient. However, unless there is more medical type care going on, a psych office may not need a MA, especially doing “back office”–so you might want to think this through a bit more if you want psych and MA.

Wize Guy answers:

Are you looking for something in particular? Give injections, write prescriptions (Dr. authorized), schedule tests and procedures, removed stitches/staples, return pt calls…

Wize Guy answers:

1. Being a certified medical assistant you could get education in a 2 years college, or training schools.
colleges like Queens-borough community college. they offered it too, and training school like Bramson Ort college.
Both of these two college offers certified Associated degrees and you need to take national test in order to be a certified medical assistant.

2. Well in both of these 2 colleges they both offered financial aid and pell grants. you could also ask for student loans but all of these is based upon your income tax. so i suggest you sit down with a school adviser before you sign up for the classes.

3. After you are certified as a MA you could continued your education or your career as a Nurse, Physician assistant or anything you want to be in medical field. But internationally, i don’t think you can do much. maybe if you wants to be a Medical doctor whereas you could be a licensed for international doctor. but other than that, i don’t know if you could be a international medical assistant.

4. As far as salary upgrade or promotion as a medical assistant it all depends on your skills and your relationship with the place where you working at. either a hospital or a private office. Some starting pays maybe $18 per hour or higher. it all depends on how good you are as a medical assistant you have to negotiated with your employer. you can do internships first. and starting from there to get your experience first.

5. well as you may already know medical assistant is very demanding in medical field because they act as a manager in a office. MA take cares of almost anything. so definitely their hours is very demanding. If you feels that it’s too much or too little hours you are working right now. I am sure they are more than happy to talk to you about it. because they are all professionals.

6. well as far as other concerns that you are talking about, i would say as a medical assistant you should understands that everyday you are working with patients that are sick, either physically or mentally. so obviously it’s very stressful but also rewarding at the same time. You should be sympathy to them, and expect lots of responsibilities each day. You will be doing clinical work and administrative work. So from doing a simple EKG to filing a claim electronically. Also you will be working directly with the doctor and direct contact with the patients. so things like drawing blood, taking vital signs, EKG, etc. you will be overwhelmed with work. I think you need a good compassionate heart to deal with it and make sure it is something that you are really interested otherwise you won’t make it even for the very first day of work.

GOod luck!

Wize Guy answers:

why do you want to switch ? I’m in a dental assistant program right now [9 months total with internship] [also plan on doing hygiene in the future]and it is allot different from medical.Of course more school would be required , it depends on if your going to a community college or a tech. school . If college; some of the basics like English ,math …you wont have to re take those only if you can transfer your credits to the other school . If its a tech. school ,few months ,more hands on , you will have to completely switch studies .

Ds= 9 months ,6 w/o internship
Hygiene= 2 yrs , As degree

Wize Guy answers:

It’s the same thing. They get payed the same and they usually help doctors with patient procedures and verify insurance information.