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The Basics: Medical Administrative Assistant

What you'll do: Handle communication technologies common to a modern office, including fax machines, phones and answering machine systems, mail services and Internet searches and e-mail. You'll also need additional skills specific to the medical field:

Degree you'll need: Certificate or Associate's degree

Median Annual Salary: $25,300 – $37,160

Cities where jobs may be found: Los Angeles, Houston, Boston. Atlanta, Dallas, Santa Ana, St. Louis, San Diego

Medical Administrative Assistants are Valuable

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Good medical administrative assistants are worth their weight in gold. When you think of a medical office, you think of a well-organized, clean and efficient office environment. If it weren't, patients would lose confidence in that medical office and find care somewhere else. But that welcoming, well-maintained environment doesn't happen by itself. A medical administrative assistant manages the front office and makes sure patients have a good experience from the moment they step through the doors.

That's why a trained medical administrative assistant is so well regarded. In addition to making things easier for the doctors, they present a professional image to patients.

 
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