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Where a medical administrative assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a medical administrative assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Medical administrative assistants work very closely with health professionals. They provide office support such as correspondence, fixing appointments and answering queries of patients.

Also known as medical receptionist, healthcare assistant, medical assistant, personal assistant, administrative assistant in medical institution, medical institution personal assistant, medical institution administrative assistant, medical PA, health services administrative assistant, healthcare secretary, PA, secretary in medical institution.

Technicians and associate professionals 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: front line medical receptionist, 47%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
front line medical receptioni… 47% covered medical records clerk 34% covered chiropractic assistant 34% covered waiting list coordinator 32% covered clinical coder 30% covered medical administrative as… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from medical administrative assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a medical administrative assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A medical administrative assistant needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • type on electronic devices information skills
  • manage personnel agenda management skills
  • clinical reports health and welfare
  • administrative tasks in a medical environment business, administration and law
  • send samples to laboratory handling and moving
  • answer patients' questions assisting and caring
  • collect healthcare user's general data information skills
  • maintain healthcare user data confidentiality assisting and caring
  • medical informatics health and welfare
  • use spreadsheets software working with computers
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a medical administrative assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Medical administrative assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a medical administrative assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.