Clinical trial assistant to medical records manager
A clinical trial assistant already meets 15% of what the medical records manager role asks for. The move turns on 25 required skills not yet in the profile.
87.2/ 100
1 How much of what a medical records manager is expected to do is already part of a clinical trial assistant’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the medical records manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A medical records manager role treats 5 of its required skills as things a clinical trial assistant already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- clinical coding
- health records management
- manage healthcare users' data
- perform clinical coding procedures
- professional documentation in health care
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 · What you already bring
Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A medical records manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a clinical trial assistant background worth leading with.
- already held patient record storage health and welfare
- already held maintain treatment records information skills
- already held clinical coding health and welfare
- already held record treated patient's information information skills
- already held perform clinical coding procedures information skills
- already held health records management business, administration and law
All 8 carried skills, including the 5 the medical records manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 50 missing skills fall into 10 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn archive healthcare users' records required
- still to learn collect statistics on medical records required
- still to learn manage digital archives required
- still to learn participate in medical records' auditing activities required
- still to learn undertake clinical audit required
- still to learn manage information in health care required
- still to learn oversee record management required
- optional, not held collect healthcare user's general data optional
- optional, not held perform records management optional
- optional, not held review patient's medical data optional
- optional, not held transfer medical information optional
- optional, not held monitor regulations in social services optional
- optional, not held process data optional
- optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
- still to learn identify patients' medical records required
- still to learn apply organisational techniques required
- still to learn recruit employees required
- still to learn supervise staff required
- optional, not held evaluate employees optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional
- still to learn healthcare administration required
- still to learn health care legislation required
- still to learn manage healthcare staff required
- optional, not held customer service optional
- optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
- optional, not held risk management optional
- still to learn work in multidisciplinary health teams required
- still to learn communicate in healthcare required
- still to learn work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- optional, not held advise on medical records optional
- optional, not held interview people optional
- optional, not held manage workflow processes optional
- still to learn comply with legislation related to health care required
- still to learn follow clinical guidelines required
- optional, not held answer patients' questions optional
- optional, not held formulate a treatment plan optional
- optional, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality optional
- optional, not held meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies optional
- still to learn use e-health and mobile health technologies required
- still to learn use electronic health records management system required
- optional, not held perform backups optional
4 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a medical records manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 archive healthcare users' records practise this
- 02 collect statistics on medical records practise this
- 03 data storage study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 8 skills that carry over
- already held clinical coding knowledge
- already held health records management knowledge
- already held manage healthcare users' data skill
- already held perform clinical coding procedures skill
- already held professional documentation in health care knowledge
- already held maintain treatment records skill
- already held patient record storage knowledge
- already held record treated patient's information skill
The 4 learning areas not shown above
- still to learn data storage required
- still to learn database required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- optional, not held human anatomy optional
- optional, not held human physiology optional
- optional, not held medical terminology optional
- still to learn document management required
- optional, not held health care system optional
25 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held advise on medical records optional
- optional, not held answer patients' questions optional
- optional, not held collect healthcare user's general data optional
- optional, not held customer service optional
- optional, not held formulate a treatment plan optional
- optional, not held interview people optional
- optional, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality optional
- optional, not held meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies optional
- optional, not held perform backups optional
- optional, not held perform records management optional
- optional, not held review patient's medical data optional
- optional, not held transfer medical information optional
- optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
- optional, not held evaluate employees optional
- optional, not held health care system optional
- optional, not held human anatomy optional
- optional, not held human physiology optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held manage workflow processes optional
- optional, not held medical terminology optional
- optional, not held monitor regulations in social services optional
- optional, not held process data optional
- optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
- optional, not held risk management optional
- optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional
7 held skills the medical records manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply good clinical practices skill
- not needed by the target role clinical reports knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical science knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct health related research skill
- not needed by the target role evidence-based approach in general practice knowledge
- not needed by the target role medical studies knowledge
- not needed by the target role record data from biomedical tests skill
14 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn data storage required
- still to learn document management required
- still to learn healthcare administration required
- still to learn database required
- still to learn health care legislation required
- still to learn manage healthcare staff required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- optional, not held customer service optional
- optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
- optional, not held health care system optional
- optional, not held human anatomy optional
- optional, not held human physiology optional
- optional, not held medical terminology optional
- optional, not held risk management optional
Other moves recorded from clinical trial assistant
Common questions about this move
Can a clinical trial assistant become a medical records manager?
Yes, and it is a career change move. A clinical trial assistant already covers 15% of what a medical records manager is expected to do: 8 skills carry over, 5 of which the medical records manager role treats as required.
What skills does a clinical trial assistant need to become a medical records manager?
25 required skills are missing, plus 25 optional ones. They fall into 10 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is archive healthcare users' records.
How hard is the move from clinical trial assistant to medical records manager?
Its learning distance is 87.2 out of 100, which is the career change band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.