Best Jobs For Former Medical Assistants [2023]

It’s tough to be a medical assistant nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a medical assistant isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become medical assistants in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many medical assistants no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former medical assistants to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former MEDICAL ASSISTANTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former MEDICAL ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Registered Nurse	3.22%
2	Customer Service Representative	2.47%
3	Certified Nursing Assistant	2.2%
4	Administrative Assistant	2.15%
5	Licensed Practical Nurse	1.95%
6	Phlebotomist	1.84%
7	Office Manager	1.57%
8	Sales Associate	1.4%
9	Cashier	1.28%
10	Home Health Aid	1.13%
11	Receptionist	0.87%
12	Medical Receptionist	0.84%
13	Patient Care Technician	0.75%
14	Billing Specialist	0.75%
15	Pharmacist Technician	0.69%
16	Registered Medical Assistant	0.68%
17	Volunteer	0.66%
18	Physician Assistant	0.61%
19	Office Assistant	0.59%
20	Clinical Medical Assistant	0.55%
21	Assistant Manager	0.55%
22	Technician	0.55%
23	Internship	0.53%
24	Server	0.53%
25	Medical Assistant/phlebotomist	0.52%
26	Front Desk Receptionist	0.48%
27	Surgical Technician	0.47%
28	Laboratory Assistant	0.47%
29	Medical Assistant Instructor	0.47%
30	Front Desk Coordinator	0.46%
31	Medical Records Clerk	0.46%
32	Manager	0.42%
33	Unit Secretary	0.41%
34	Lead Medical Assistant	0.41%
35	Laboratory Technician	0.4%
36	Customer Service Trainer	0.38%
37	Teacher	0.37%
38	Assistant	0.32%
39	Substitute Teacher	0.32%
40	Office Administrator	0.32%
41	Medical Office Assistant	0.32%
42	Radiologic Technician	0.31%
43	Clinical Assistant	0.3%
44	Security Officer	0.3%
45	Patient Service Representative	0.3%
46	Supervisor	0.29%
47	Medical Assistant Externship	0.29%
48	Medic	0.29%
49	Front Office Assistant	0.29%
50	Emergency Medical Technician	0.28%
51	Specialist	0.27%
52	Ophthalmic Technician	0.26%
53	Patient Care Coordinator	0.26%
54	Patient Care Assistant	0.26%
55	Instructor	0.25%
56	Coordinator	0.25%
57	Patient Access Representative	0.25%
58	Personal Assistant	0.24%
59	Medical Technologist	0.24%
60	Team Leader	0.24%
61	X-Ray Technician	0.23%
62	Assistant Office Manager	0.23%
63	Teacher Assistant	0.23%
64	Associate	0.23%
65	Research Assistant	0.22%
66	Store Manager	0.22%
67	Phlebotomy Technician	0.22%
68	Secretary	0.22%
69	Allied Health Instructor	0.22%
70	Clinical Research Coordinator	0.21%
71	Clerk	0.2%
72	Case Manager	0.2%
73	Data Entry Associate	0.2%
74	Direct Support Professional	0.19%
75	Sales Representative	0.19%
76	Clinical Coordinator	0.17%
77	Warehouse Associate	0.17%
78	Customer Service Associate	0.17%
79	Owner	0.17%
80	Surgical Assistant	0.17%
81	Waitress	0.17%
82	Medical Coder	0.17%
83	Data Entry Clerk	0.16%
84	Medical Assisting Instructor	0.16%
85	Preschool Teacher	0.16%
86	Driver	0.16%
87	Staff Nurse	0.16%
88	Crew Member	0.16%
89	Clinical Technician	0.15%
90	Assistant Laboratory Technician	0.15%
91	Referral Coordinator	0.15%
92	Medical Support Assistant	0.15%
93	Human Resources Coordinator	0.14%
94	Legal Assistant	0.14%
95	Service Representative	0.14%
96	Ob/gyn	0.14%
97	Md	0.14%
98	Surgical Coordinator	0.14%
99	Office Manager/medical Assistant	0.14%
100	Massage Therapist	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former MEDICAL ASSISTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a medical assistant would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former medical assistants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former MEDICAL ASSISTANTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed medical assistant under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a medical assistant, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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