Medical Administrative Assistant
Offered By: Penn Foster Career School
Learn the skills you need to become a Medical Administrative Assistant – at home, at your own pace, with Penn Foster Career School. As a Medical Administrative Assistant, you'll need to know medical terminology, managing and updating patient records, and office procedures. This program can help you learn these, and many more skills, affordably, quickly and conveniently. Your coursework will include Law, Ethics, and Confidentiality in Allied Health; Electronic Medical Records; Basic Pharmacology; Medical Terminology; and more.
Demand for Medical Administrative Assistants will rise nearly 34% through 2018.* Medical Administrative Assistants enjoy exciting, varied assignments, steady work schedules, respect and prestige. Whether you work for a clinic or doctor's office, as a Medical Administrative Assistant you'll have a career you can be proud of!
*Growth figures represent a ten-year period ending 2018. Source: "National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix," a publication of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
