Here’s Another Option

Okay, we’re going full throttle in health care careers so check out today’s topic, Medical Assistants.  I guess I didn’t realize all those people in the doctors office and other medical settings didn’t just stumble in off the street.  Medical Assistants as you’ll learn get to do a little (or a lot) of everything.

The course we talked about at Wichita Area Technical College can be completed in as little as one year (full-time, 8-330 daily).  The take away from this episode should be pretty straight forward.  The medical industry is NEVER going away, even in the worst economy people will get sick, and will PAY to get better.  Hospitals, Doctor’s Offices, and Clinics need LOTS of workers.  You will be able to find a job.

As for the work I didn’t realize phlebotomists (I like to call them blood suckers), EKG tech’s, even the people who come in and take your blood pressure and info at that annual “Pap Smear” visit are usually Medical Assistants.  I think more than anything it’s nice to know that those of us who weren’t disciplined enough to be a Doctor can have a meaningful impact on people’s health even if it is our second, third or LATER life!

Here’s something else I learned.  At WATC they give an ethics grade.  What pray tell is this?  It’s the kind of thing an employer really wants to know.  Did this student show up on time, did they do what was asked, are they a pain in the buttooski (my words not theirs), it’s an overall grade of the stuff that makes you a good employee but most people never get a read on until they are hired (or fired!)

Check it out this episode covers all kinds of duties from taking blood to learning how to do insurance billing, it actually sounds pretty darn fascinating.

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