Certified Medical Assistant- Orthopaedics

Certified Medical Assistant- Orthopaedics

We are seeking a Medical Assistant, Certified responsible for performing a variety of duties depending on whether it is a small clinic, large medical practice, multi-clinic, or a specialty office. They may be involved in both the clinical and administrative areas including assisting physicians with patient care and handling clerical, environmental, and organizational tasks.

Job Location: Duke Sports Sciences Institute 3475 Erwin Rd, Durham, NC 27705

Job Summary:

The role involves patient care responsibilities such as rooming patients, collecting histories, charting, answering phone calls, and completing forms. Additionally, clerical duties include prepping clinics, obtaining test results, updating charts, verifying insurance, obtaining authorizations, and coordinating referrals and appointments.

EOC responsibilities include cleaning exam rooms, ordering and stocking supplies, restocking exam rooms, cleaning exam tables, and maintaining a safe work environment by checking for expired supplies, medications, and emptying sharps containers.

Organizational duties involve promoting patient rights, responding to emergency codes, and following HR, Compliance, and Joint Commission policies.

Responsibilities may vary according to state law, which include autoclaving, checking vital signs, suture removal, dressing changes, entering orders based on physician protocols, biohazard waste, blood drawing, and applying DME to a patient.

Other duties include developing the ability to remove cast, apply basic splints and cast to the upper and lower extremity, and accurately fit all DME products used in the clinic.

Job Eligibility Requirements:

• Graduation from accredited Medical Assistant program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) strongly preferred.
• High school or GED graduation required.
• Certification by AAMA, AMT, NHA-CCMA, NCMA or ARMA required.
• 1 year prior experience in a clinic setting preferred.
• BLS required.

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