Medical Assistants
31-9092.00
Bright Outlook Updated 2024

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.

Sample of reported job titles: Certified Medical Assistant (CMA), Chiropractor Assistant, Clinical Medical Assistant, Doctor's Assistant, Health Assistant, Ophthalmic Assistant, Ophthalmological Assistant, Optometric Assistant, Outpatient Surgery Assistant, Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)

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Alcohol analyzers
  • Breathalyzers
Audiometers
Bedside pulmonary function screeners
  • Pulmonary function measurement equipment
Benchtop centrifuges
  • Centrifuges
Binocular light compound microscopes
Blood collection needles
  • Single draw needles
Body plethysmographs
  • Plethysmographs
Canes
Capillary or hematocrit tubes
  • Microcapillary hematocrit tubes
Cast cutters or saws
  • Cast cutters
Chemistry analyzers
  • Blood chemistry analyzers
Crutches
Dictation machines
  • Dictation equipment
Dropping pipettes
  • Pipettes
Electrocardiography EKG units
Electronic blood pressure units
  • Electronic blood pressure measuring devices
Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
  • Electrocautery equipment
Endotracheal tubes
  • Endotracheal ET tubes
Enema kits
  • Enema equipment
Eye charts or vision cards
  • Snellen eye charts
Eye occluders
  • Handheld occluders
Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
  • Gait belts
Hearing aid
  • Hearing aids
Hypodermic needle
  • Intradermal needles
  • Intramuscular needles
  • Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Keratometers
Lancets
Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use
  • Mayo stands
Laser printers
Magnetic stripe readers and encoders
  • Credit card readers
Medical acoustic stethoscopes
  • Mechanical stethoscopes
Medical gas cylinders or related devices
  • Oxygen tanks
Medical imaging wet darkroom or daylight processors
  • X ray development equipment
Medical or surgical suction or vacuum appliances
  • Suction machines
Medical or surgical suction tubings
  • Suction tubing
Medical oxygen masks or parts
  • Oxygen masks
Medical radiation films or badges
  • Dosimetry badges
Medical syringes with needle
  • Syringe needles
Medical syringes without needle
  • Syringes
Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use
  • X ray machines
Mercury blood pressure units
  • Baumanometers
  • Manual blood pressuring measurement equipment
Microscope slides
Nebulizers
  • Pulmonary nebulizers
Non vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
  • Blood collection vials
Notebook computers
Ophthalmic lensometers
  • Lensometers
Ophthalmic retinoscopes
  • Retinoscopes
Ophthalmic tonometers
  • Tonometers
Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
  • Opthalmoscopes
  • Otoscopes
Opticians tools
  • Metric rules
Orthopedic splint systems
  • Splints
Oxygen therapy delivery system products
  • Oxygen equipment
Personal computers
Phlebotomy trays or accessories
  • Evacuated collection tube holders/adapters
Scanners
Sigmoidoscopes
  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy equipment
Skin staple removers or kits
  • Staple removers
Specimen collection container
  • Culturettes
Spirometers
  • Vitalors
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
  • Autoclaves
Suture removers
Tablet computers
Tourniquets
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
  • Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS units
Tuberculin syringes
  • Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
  • Evacuated blood collection tubes
Walkers or rollators
  • Walkers
Wheelchairs
Winged infusion needle set
  • Butterfly needles