Medical Office Assistant & Unit Clerk Diploma: An Exciting
Choice For You
You’ve made one of the most important decisions in your life: get more
education to increase your earning potential.
Next: which of the many courses out there is the best for you?
Well, at ABM College we are focused on health, business, and technology
courses. So, let’s conclude that you’ve had experience working in the medical
environment and are still interested in pursuing that line of work, then there’s a
host of diploma and certificate courses to choose from in our Health Stable.
One of those is the Medical Office Assistant and Unit Clerk diploma. From its
title, you would reckon that this is a two-in-one program which means you’d be
getting two for the price of one.
What does the course entail?
Below is a short list of some of the courses in the curriculum.
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Accounting
Keyboarding and Data Entry
Medical software
Healthcare communication
The medical office assistant and unit clerk program is a comprehensive package
that will make a well-rounded professional out of you. It’s a medical course, yet
you have to know accounting, communication, and of course clerical duties.
Responsibilities of a Medical Office Assistant
These course ingredients are necessary because of the roles and responsibilities
of a Medical Office Assistant. The medical office assistant is the first point of
contact in a medical establishment. This professional is responsible for
coordinating a medical office such that patients who need to see, or speak to, a
doctor are not left stranded when they arrive at, or call, a medical facility.
Because of the patient-facing nature of the job, it is imperative for these
professionals to be good communicators, and they must be versatile about it
since they would be dealing with both patients and doctors. It is therefore not a
surprise that the curriculum includes medical terminology to ensure that
medical assistants are able to communicate effectively with doctors and other
health professionals.
You would also be dealing with a lot of data: patients' date of birth, address,
reason to want to see their family doctor, revising or cancelling appointments,
and feedback from doctors too.
This entails the clerical side of the medical office assistant role and it is no less
as important as the other roles like filing records, coordinating clinical and
administrative procedures, undertaking medical transcriptions, and so on.
So, what’s in it for you, you ask again?
Well, it makes you a versatile professional by knowing beyond the basics in the
medical field and allied fields that are necessary to perform your tasks.
Finishing as a Medical Office Assistant also means you can take your earnings
higher than what they used to be before taking the course as you can earn as
much as $67, 000 per annum depending on other variables like experience.
Final Thoughts
Of course, all of the above is assuming you have answered the question: which
college should I attend? ABM College, no doubt. As stated above ABM College is
a career college offering health, business, and technology courses to students
who want to take a career leap.
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