How do they match: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

  • 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.
  • Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files.
  • Prepare correspondence or assist physicians or medical scientists with preparation of reports, speeches, articles, or conference proceedings.
  • Transmit correspondence or medical records by mail, e-mail, or fax.

  • Prepare business correspondence.