What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant Trainee Program (Earn While you Learn!!) position at Exeter Hospital?
Next Class starts March 3, 2025!! Applications will be taken into consideration until 2/1/2025.
Paid Medical Assistant training program which includes attendance of 10 week classroom training and 6 week (240 hours) clinical internship. Tuition will be shared by employer and employee. Successful completion of program will require demonstrating competency in selected skills throughout the program and passing the final exam. Clinical internship will include six weeks of training under direct supervision and responsibility of preceptor/liaison. Classroom work will include attendance of 40 hours per week of classroom education for ten weeks. Program graduates will be prepared to work as a Medical Assistant in a Core Physician's practice.
Requirements:
- High School Graduate or GED
Major Responsibilities:
- Perform clinical duties such as assisting provider in examinations, procedures and obtaining vital signs.
- Clean instruments and exam rooms as needed.
- Prepare instruments for sterilization as required.
- Order and stock exam rooms with appropriate medical supplies.
- Call in prescriptions as directed by the provider.
- May schedule pre‑admission and diagnostic testing, follow up with patients after surgeries.
- May perform any of the following administrative duties: answering telephone inquiries, scheduling, organizing patient charts, filing, pulling and copying patient records.
- Maintain and adhere to established Core policies and procedures and federal regulations, including, patient confidentiality, quality assurance, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Core Physicians will not discriminate against apprenticeship applicants or apprentices based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, or because they are an individual with a disability or a person 40 years old or older. Core Physicians will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 30.
