Your Path to a Fulfilling Career
Your Path to a Fulfilling Career
What's Your Future as a Medical Assistant?
If you’re looking for a career change, we’ve mapped out the successful path many students decide to take – in medical assisting. Explore this step-by-step journey to transform your life with a medical assisting diploma.
Your Motivation:
A Growing Job Market
Medical Assisting Jobs
2014
2024
Jobs are expected to increase 23%. That’s much faster than the average.1
Employment
138,900
More medical assistants are expected to be employed by 2024, compared to 2014.1
Aging baby boomers are increasing the demand for medical assistants.2
Correct!
According to 2015 data, there are 75.4 million baby boomers, and 83.1 million millennials.3
With population increases and continued medical advances, the need for health professionals grows.
Actually...
According to 2015 data, there are 75.4 million baby boomers, and 83.1 million millennials.3
With population increases and continued medical advances, the need for health professionals grows.
Your Journey
Step 1:
Get the Training You Need
Typical entry-level medical assistants need a post-secondary award, like Ohio Business College’s Medical Assisting diploma.
With this kind of education, entry-level medical assistants often require no on-the-job training, making them even more valuable employees.1
What will I learn through the program?
• Medical terminology
• How to take vital signs and administer EKGs
• Minor office surgery tasks
• How to perform phlebotomy functions
• Insurance billing and coding
• Electronic health records
• How to transcribe physician notes
• Appointment setting
Step 2:
Find Your Niche
In the broad field of healthcare, medical assistants can focus their careers on the area they’re most interested in. Discover a few of your options.
Cardiology
Help doctors who are experts on the human heart, a complex organ that’s essential to the body.
Chiropractic
Join this in-demand area of alternative healthcare to help patients with nerve, muscle, and bone problems.
Family
An ideal field for anyone with a broad interest in healthcare, family medicine provides healthcare to all patient types.
Geriatrics
Focus your career on the rewarding task of assisting with the health and well-being of older adults.
Oncology
Make a difference by helping doctors who focus on preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer.
Orthopedic
Assist medical offices that help patients find relief from injured bones, joints, and nerves.
Pediatric
Use your natural abilities with children to help families and the youngest members of your community.
Podiatry
Help doctors who specialize in the lower legs, ankles, feet, and toes, often treating illness or injury and performing surgery.
Step 3:
Increase Your Salary
Medical assistants earn an average of $29,960 per year.1
2006
2014
The avg. medical assisting salary increased 15%, showing steadily high growth.
Which type of medical assisting employer offers the highest salary opportunity?
Doctor's office
Hospital
Research-driven facility
Correct!
By finding a medical assisting job in scientific research, you could increase your average potential salary to $37,040.4
Actually, it's research-driven facility
By finding a medical assisting job in scientific research, you could increase your average potential salary to $37,040.4
Step 4:
Do Work You Care About
Medical assistants have the essential role of providing a smooth healthcare experience for people in their moments of greatest need.
Find meaningful work as a medical assistant and:
- Be the first and last face a patient sees during a visit
- Simplify the health insurance process for patients
- Provide basic care for patients
- Assist doctors so they can do their jobs better
- Maintain an organized office
If you’re passionate about helping patients and empowering the healthcare system, you can find satisfaction as a medical assistant.
Get Started Today
Now that you have a vision for your future, we can guide you through every step of your education and career. Ohio Business College will help you:
Get you the training you need
Find the right career path for you
Land your dream job
Maintain a fulfilling career
Start your future today.
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Sources
1 Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/medical-assistants.htm
2 US News World Report: http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/medical-assistant
3 Census Bureau of the United States: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-113.html
4 Houston Chronicle: http://work.chron.com/medical-office-assistant-vs-administrative-assistant-12228.html