How do they match: Medical Assistants

  • Physician's Aide

  • Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

  • Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
  • Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
  • Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
  • Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.

  • Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.