Best medical assistant jobs

The best medical assistant jobs include clinical medical assistants, administrative medical assistants, and cardiac medical assistants. As with other medical professions, medical assistants can specialize, allowing you to focus on the aspect of medicine that most interests you. Specialists of all kinds require medical assistance and help with medical administrative tasks. If you're considering being a medical assistant or decided that being a doctor requires too much time in school, then here are ten specialties to look into:

1. Clinical Medical Assistant

   Average Salary: $37,052

   A clinical medical assistant specializes in performing administrative and clinical tasks in a hospital or similar setting. Their responsibilities revolve around gathering a patient's information, medical history, test results, and other essential documentation, and updating patient medical records. Other tasks include reaching out to patients' families and guardians, assisting health workers with room preparation and patient care, and preparing medications and other treatments, all in adherence to a physician's directives. Furthermore, a clinical medical assistant may conduct inspections to ensure that the hospital complies with government regulations.

2. Administrative Medical Assisant

3. Cardiac Medical Assiant

4. Podiatric Medical Assistant

5. Geriatric Medical Assistant

6. Obstrectic Medical Assisant

7. Ophthalmologic Medical Assistant

8. Chiropractic Medical Assistant

9. Phlebotomist

   Average Salary: $33,713

   Phlebotomists are workers in the medical field who specialize in drawing blood from patients. They ensure that patients are prepared by explaining the procedure to them, showing them tools they will use and where their blood will be stored, and answering any questions the patients may have. Phlebotomists then draw blood from the patient, patch up the area where the blood was drawn, and store the blood samples in properly labeled vials or blood bags. After the procedure, they send the blood samples to the laboratory for testing, transfusion, or any other use that there may be.

10. Endocrinologic Medical Assistant