Looking for a new career in the health care industry? You might want to consider becoming a medical assistant.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of medical assistants is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2012. They say that the increasing use of medical assistants across all rapidly growing health care industries will result in fast employment growth for this occupation. In fact, medical assistants is projected to be the fastest growing occupation over the 200212 period.
The health services industry is expanding because of technological advances in medicine, and a growing and aging population. Due to the expansion and growth in group practices, hospitals, medical centers, clinics, and healthcare facilities, many more support personnel will be needed, especially medical assistants who will be able to handle both administrative and clinical duties.
What do Medical Assistants do?
Medical assistants perform routine administrative and clinical tasks. They provide much needed daily assistance to keep the doctors, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health care offices running...