From medical records clerk to doctors' surgery assistant
14 of the 46 essential skills of a doctors' surgery assistant are already essential for a medical records clerk — about 30% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 32
- would be new
- 30%
- of the target job covered
- 46
- essential skills of a doctors' surgery assistant
What a doctors' surgery assistant does
Doctors' surgery assistants support doctors of medicine in medical measures, in performing simple support activities during medical procedures, standardised diagnostic programmes and standardised point-of-care tests, ensuring surgery hygiene, cleaning, disinfecting, sterilising and maintaining medical devices and performing the organisational and administrative tasks required for operating a doctor`s surgery under supervision, following the orders of the doctor of medicine.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- health records management
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- professional documentation in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
32 skillsEssential for a doctors' surgery assistant and not for a medical records clerk. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- anaesthetics
- answer patients' questions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assist in epilepsy surgery
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- maintain treatment records
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- operate patients with thoracic diseases
- perform reconstructive plastic surgery
- process medical insurance claims
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide pre-treatment information
- provide test results to medical staff
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- surgical asepsis
- techniques of blood-sampling
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other moves from medical records clerk
2 roles- medical records manager18 skills in common
- front line medical receptionist15 skills in common
← medical records clerkdoctors' surgery assistant →The other way round
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How far are you from being a doctors' surgery assistant?
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