About this role
Overview
Trains to become a Medical Assistant Apprentice. Learns to perform clinical tasks of a medical assistant while preparing for the national certification exam. The MA Trainee is a temporary role for those actively enrolled in the D-H WRI program. Upon successful completion trainees transition to apprentices.
Responsible for learning and practicing clinical duties such as taking vital signs, giving injections, performing simple diagnostic tests, collecting specimens, drawing blood, sterilizing and cleaning equipment, and maintaining examination rooms at an outpatient care site.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills.
- Learns to greet, check in patients, and notify appropriate provider.
- Learns to prepare patient, room and equipment for procedures and and exams.
- Learns to take and record vital signs, informing provider of patient vital signs and concerns.
- Learns to recognize and treat emergency patients as a priority, assist with patient examinations and treatments.
- Learns to handle patient situations over the phone, schedule appointments and procedures with medical Learns to understand limitations in dealing with patients over the phone, and involves nursing staff and providers.
- Learns to register new patients and establishes a medical record.
- Learns to prepare patient billings.
- Learns to assist patients by filling out insurance and other forms.
- Learns to instruct patients in preparation for specific procedures.
- Learns to collect and processes routine laboratory specimen.
- Learns to operate and maintain clinical equipment.
- Learns to maintain and use aseptic technique including sterilization, disinfection and disposal of contaminated material.
- Learns to clean, wraps and autoclaves instruments. Cares for supplies and equipment.
- Prepares for national certification exam.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work well as a member of a team.
- Computer skills strongly preferred.
- Must be willing to complete all class activities and assignments as scheduled which may include evenings and weekends.
Required Licensure/Certifications
REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:•
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About Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire's only academic health system and the state's largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes its Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, including the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the state’s only children’s hospital and clinic locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene and New London, NH, and Windsor, VT, and Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
What you'll do
- The Medical Assistant Trainee is responsible for learning and practicing clinical duties such as taking vital signs, assisting with patient examinations, and preparing for the national certification exam. This role involves direct patient interaction and support in an outpatient care setting.
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