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medical support assistant
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A Medical Support Assistant supports doctors with record-keeping, administrative work, and scheduling patient appointments. Their role is to work closely with doctors, nurses, and other medical staff in hospitals, medical clinics, and private practices. Their responsibilities are answering phone calls and emails, delivering messages to staff members, greeting patients and visitors, answering basic questions, maintaining patient records, updating medical data, organizing paperwork and opening files, verifying patient's insurance information, assisting doctors with patient examinations, collecting and documenting patient's health information, recording doctor's orders, scheduling appointments...

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Avg Pay: $46K
Jobs: 436
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Avg Pay: $47K
Jobs: 46,749

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2.7 years
$47K
The average years of experience in the workforce prior to having this role
3.10 years
Entry
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4
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  • Bachelor Degree In Health Care Management
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$24,571Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Of Arts (b.a.) In Business
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:47 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,360Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree In English
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,429Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Master Of Business Administration (m.b.a) In Management
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:16 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,451Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Degree In Medical Science
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$33,826Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor Of Science (b.sc.) In Management
    The number of occurrences matches with Medical Support Assistant in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$28,989Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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