Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

chiropractic assistanttodoctors' surgery assistant

A chiropractic assistant already meets 42% of what the doctors' surgery assistant role asks for. The move turns on 25 required skills not yet in the profile.

From chiropractic assistant
42%
Overlap1
To doctors' surgery assistant
24 Skills carried over
25 Required, not held
71.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

42%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

71.3/ 100

1 Share of the doctors' surgery assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the chiropractic assistant profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A doctors' surgery assistant role treats 21 of its required skills as things a chiropractic assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • administrative tasks in a medical environment
  • advise on healthcare users' informed consent
  • answer patients' questions
  • apply organisational techniques
  • communicate in healthcare

What stands in the way is 25 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 24 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A doctors' surgery assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a chiropractic assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held administrative tasks in a medical environment business, administration and law
  • already held answer patients' questions assisting and caring
  • already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment information skills
  • already held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality assisting and caring
  • already held professional documentation in health care health and welfare
  • already held medical informatics health and welfare

All 24 carried skills, including the 21 the doctors' surgery assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 42 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 8 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held perform reconstructive plastic surgery required
  • required, not held assist in epilepsy surgery required
  • required, not held contribute to continuity of health care required
  • required, not held ensure safety of healthcare users required
  • required, not held operate patients with thoracic diseases required
  • required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
  • required, not held deal with emergency care situations required
  • required, not held follow clinical guidelines required
  • optional, not held assist patients with special needs optional
  • optional, not held assist with hemostasis optional
  • optional, not held perform venepuncture procedures optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 6 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held apply context specific clinical competences required
  • required, not held provide pre-treatment information required
  • required, not held provide test results to medical staff required
  • required, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship required
  • required, not held educate on the prevention of illness required
  • required, not held interact with healthcare users required
  • optional, not held offer advice on diet-related concerns optional
  • optional, not held perform procurement processes optional
03 health and welfare 4 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held anaesthetics required
  • required, not held multi-professional cooperation in health care required
  • required, not held surgical asepsis required
  • required, not held techniques of blood-sampling required
  • optional, not held spine surgery optional
  • optional, not held wound closure techniques optional
  • optional, not held clinical reports optional
  • optional, not held radiological procedures optional
04 information skills 4 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain treatment records required
  • required, not held monitor patients' progress related to treatment required
  • required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
  • required, not held process medical insurance claims required
  • optional, not held analyse X-ray imagery optional
  • optional, not held conduct polysomnography optional
  • optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
05 business, administration and law 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held health records management required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • optional, not held e-procurement optional
06 services 1 required
  • required, not held health care system required

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a doctors' surgery assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 24 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held administrative tasks in a medical environment knowledge
  • already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
  • already held answer patients' questions skill
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • already held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality skill
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
  • already held medical terminology knowledge
  • already held professional documentation in health care knowledge
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
  • already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
  • already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held administer appointments skill
  • already held customer service knowledge
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 handling and moving 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held collect biological samples from patients optional
  • optional, not held take blood samples optional
08 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held supervise medical office support workers optional
09 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use venepuncture procedure equipment optional
17 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held spine surgery optional
  • optional, not held wound closure techniques optional
  • optional, not held analyse X-ray imagery optional
  • optional, not held assist patients with special needs optional
  • optional, not held assist with hemostasis optional
  • optional, not held clinical reports optional
  • optional, not held collect biological samples from patients optional
  • optional, not held conduct polysomnography optional
  • optional, not held e-procurement optional
  • optional, not held perform venepuncture procedures optional
  • optional, not held radiological procedures optional
  • optional, not held supervise medical office support workers optional
  • optional, not held take blood samples optional
  • optional, not held use venepuncture procedure equipment optional
  • optional, not held offer advice on diet-related concerns optional
  • optional, not held perform procurement processes optional
  • optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
8 held skills the doctors' surgery assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role chiropractic terminology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect healthcare user data under supervision skill
  • not needed by the target role collect healthcare user's general data skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to quality physiotherapy services skill
  • not needed by the target role identify patients' medical records skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain chiropractic equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
  • not needed by the target role use electronic health records management system skill
12 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held anaesthetics required
  • required, not held health records management required
  • required, not held multi-professional cooperation in health care required
  • required, not held surgical asepsis required
  • required, not held techniques of blood-sampling required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held health care system required
  • optional, not held spine surgery optional
  • optional, not held wound closure techniques optional
  • optional, not held clinical reports optional
  • optional, not held e-procurement optional
  • optional, not held radiological procedures optional
Index

Other moves recorded from chiropractic assistant

Full index of moves from chiropractic assistant

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.