Medical Office Professionals: A Practical Career Guide

by Marcia Santore

Overview

Welcome to medical office professional careers! If you are interested in a career in the medical office professional field, you’ve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? How much money can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? Do these career paths have a bright future? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more.

This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers eight main areas of the medical office professionals field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions.

• Nurse Practitioner
• Physician Assistant
• Medical Records and Health Information Technologist
• Optometrist
• Pharmacy Technician
• Phlebotomist
• Sonographer
• Surgical Technologist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538111871
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/31/2019
Series:	Practical Career Guides Series
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,138,175
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Marcia Santore is a writer and editor from New England. She has worked as a magazine editor and writer and has written on many topics, including profiles of artists, scholars, scientists, and business people in a way that's approachable for the general reader. See her writing website at www.amalgamatedstory.com.

Table of Contents

So You Want a Career in the Medical Office Professionals Field?

Chapter 1 Why Choose a Career in the Medical Office Professionals Field?

Chapter 2 Forming a Career Plan

Chapter3 Pursuing the Education Path

Chapter 4 Writing Your Resume and Interviewing

Glossary of Terms

Further Resources

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

This career guidebook...may serve well in collections at community colleges with allied health programs and at four-year institutions supporting school counselor programs. Santore provides succinct yet useful overviews of eight healthcare-related careers. The educational and certification requirements for each career are readily offered, and relevant associations are listed. Brief advice regarding networking, resumé writing, and interviewing forges an introduction for those who have not yet actively entered the market. Perhaps the most interesting information for career seekers can be found tucked within the petite interviews of specialists who are currently working in the field.

Choice Reviews

This career guidebook...may serve well in collections at community colleges with allied health programs and at four-year institutions supporting school counselor programs. Santore provides succinct yet useful overviews of eight healthcare-related careers. The educational and certification requirements for each career are readily offered, and relevant associations are listed. Brief advice regarding networking, resumé writing, and interviewing forges an introduction for those who have not yet actively entered the market. Perhaps the most interesting information for career seekers can be found tucked within the petite interviews of specialists who are currently working in the field.

From the Publisher

This career guidebook...may serve well in collections at community colleges with allied health programs and at four-year institutions supporting school counselor programs. Santore provides succinct yet useful overviews of eight healthcare-related careers. The educational and certification requirements for each career are readily offered, and relevant associations are listed. Brief advice regarding networking, resumé writing, and interviewing forges an introduction for those who have not yet actively entered the market. Perhaps the most interesting information for career seekers can be found tucked within the petite interviews of specialists who are currently working in the field.

Choice

This career guidebook...may serve well in collections at community colleges with allied health programs and at four-year institutions supporting school counselor programs. Santore provides succinct yet useful overviews of eight healthcare-related careers. The educational and certification requirements for each career are readily offered, and relevant associations are listed. Brief advice regarding networking, resumé writing, and interviewing forges an introduction for those who have not yet actively entered the market. Perhaps the most interesting information for career seekers can be found tucked within the petite interviews of specialists who are currently working in the field.

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