Important Skills

The next chapters address a medical assistant's professional skills, traits and various responsibilities that are essential to serving patients in an ambulatory medical office setting. It further goes into educating patients that are about to be referred, admitted and treated in an in-patient medical care setting. Some of these responsibilities typically include patient teaching, coordinating referrals and appointments, assisting with emergency procedures, small surgeries, patient education, health insurance regulations and concerns of the terminally ill patient. Knowing the law and mastering these  skills provides a solid base from which a medical assistant can grow as a successful member of the modern health care team.