With all the recent changes in healthcare, job market, and economy everything has changed, including the way doctors hire their medical assisting staff. Many doctors are looking for experience and and certifications, whether is is for a permanent, or temporary position - it's the same old tune. It seems to be directly connected to their need for competent staff when it comes to running their medical practice efficiently, and effectively, fear of errors, and thus, law suites, their reputation and in some cases, because their State Medical Board, or professional malpractice insurance carrier requires it. As a medical assistant, you should make sure you are fully informed about the value and importance of medical assistant certifications available to you.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Why Do Doctors Want CERTIFIED Medical Assistants?
With all the recent changes in healthcare, job market, and economy everything has changed, including the way doctors hire their medical assisting staff. Many doctors are looking for experience and and certifications, whether is is for a permanent, or temporary position - it's the same old tune. It seems to be directly connected to their need for competent staff when it comes to running their medical practice efficiently, and effectively, fear of errors, and thus, law suites, their reputation and in some cases, because their State Medical Board, or professional malpractice insurance carrier requires it. As a medical assistant, you should make sure you are fully informed about the value and importance of medical assistant certifications available to you.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Medical Assistants to be Stationed at Rural Clinics
Friday July 9, 2010News on thestar.com online
SEPANG: Medical assistants will be stationed at all rural clinics for the convenience of patients in the area, said China's Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
Liow said the upgrading of the 2,000 rural clinics nationwide, currently run by community nurses, would be done in stages but it would take time to place a medical assistant in each of them.
“Having medical assistants at rural clinics would mean that patients in the area would no longer have to travel far to seek treatment for minor problems like influenza, fever or cough,” he said.
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In reading this news article I immediately wondered what the function and scope of practice for medical assistants in China might be. The article says, the rural clinics are run by community nurses. Therefore, the article seems to imply that there aren't necessarily doctors at all, if not any of the clinics, which then, if I spin this thought on further, would put the nurses in charge of the newly hired medical assistants there. Interesting, and quite a bit different from the function and supervision of medical assistants in the USA.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/9/nation/6635241&sec=nation
“Having medical assistants at rural clinics would mean that patients in the area would no longer have to travel far to seek treatment for minor problems like influenza, fever or cough,” he said.
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In reading this news article I immediately wondered what the function and scope of practice for medical assistants in China might be. The article says, the rural clinics are run by community nurses. Therefore, the article seems to imply that there aren't necessarily doctors at all, if not any of the clinics, which then, if I spin this thought on further, would put the nurses in charge of the newly hired medical assistants there. Interesting, and quite a bit different from the function and supervision of medical assistants in the USA.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/9/nation/6635241&sec=nation
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