Certified Medical office assistants’ career duties will range from overseeing patient records to filing insurance claims, and both precision and excellent management skills are musts. The doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals will rely on to keep the office in order, serving as the first point of contact with all patients, who will also trust that they are optimizing their experience with their office. Students will learn how to represent their medical office exceptionally. Medical office assistant duties include documenting physician orders, preparing patient treatment, updating patient information, and scheduling patient appointments.

A certified unit clerk is responsible for maintaining a record of doctors’ instructions, creating guidelines for treatment, monitoring schedules for doctors, scheduling appointments for patients, and organizing patients’ health records.

Because of the sensitive nature of medical details, there are strict rules and guidelines that cover how and when recordings must work. At the same time, audio and video files require a written transcription – something that is still difficult and some cases impossible to automate. Students will gain the expertise necessary for producing accurate, high-quality transcripts based on audiovisual sources.

In a hospital a certified pharmacy assistant will work alongside a licensed pharmacist to distribute medicines to patients. Additional responsibilities include receiving phone calls and taking messages, managing the queue of incoming orders, monitoring all medicine stock, and processing transactions.

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals trust that the medical records they use throughout the day are accurate, and to keep up with these records, they entrust medical record specialists who are qualified, experienced, and dependable. At ERP College, students will sharpen their record-keeping and communication skills, among others, as they earn their diplomas and prepare to enter their careers.