Occupation Atlasmedical administrative assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/045f05f2-4ff8-46b2-9d08-e12a81657498
medical administrative assistant
Medical administrative assistants work very closely with health professionals. They provide office support such as correspondence, fixing appointments and answering queries of patients.
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Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CSEConventional · Social · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.67
- S Social4.13
- E Enterprising3.17
- I Investigative3.02
- R Realistic2.29
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (43-6013.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (14)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- answer patients' questions
- apply organisational techniques
- clinical reports
- collect healthcare user's general data
- communicate by telephone
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage budgets
- manage personnel agenda
- medical informatics
- send samples to laboratory
- type on electronic devices
- use communication techniques
- use spreadsheets software
Optional (28)
- allocate bills
- analyse insurance needs
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- comply with legislation related to health care
- coordinate events
- fill out forms
- fix meetings
- handle paperwork
- healthcare administration
- insurance law
- listen actively
- manage accounts
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical terminology
- monitor billing procedures
- order supplies
- organise travel arrangements for staff
- pathology
- plan schedule
- process medical insurance claims
- professional documentation in health care
- record healthcare users' billing information
- record treated patient's information
- transcribe dialogues
- transcription methods
- types of insurance
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 14 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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