Summary: A Career As A Medical Assistant

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As a Medical Assistant, your interactions with patients will play a significant role in their overall experience at your medical facility. Patients usually interact with Medical assistants first, so their first impression of a facility, whether good or bad, starts with you. Your customer service skills will leave the patient with the overall experience of their visit. Not only should your interpersonal skills be used for patients but your doctor, nurses, and medical staff as well.

Medical assistants work the central part of their day directly with patients so that you will need excellent customer service skills, patience, organization, assertiveness, nonverbal communication skills and a kind heart. You will need to be able to explain yourself