How do they match: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

  • Guest Service Representative
  • Patient Account Representative
  • Patient Relations Representative
  • Patient Services Representative
  • Unit Support Representative

  • Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

  • Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer.
  • Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records.
  • Prepare correspondence or assist physicians or medical scientists with preparation of reports, speeches, articles, or conference proceedings.

  • Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
  • Send information, materials or documentation.