There are many reasons that I decided to begin the journey of becoming a Certified Medical Assistant. For instance, one reason I chose medical assisting is because there are so many available career opportunities and options available for career advancement within the medical field. I believe becoming a Certified Medical Assistant will be a very rewarding career choice for me in the long run. I have always had a thriving passion for working within the medical field and have also always absolutely adored being helpful and assisting others in need.
Medical assisting is becoming a quite popular career and is in pretty high demand due to many different reasons. One of those reasons being the fact that the popular “baby-boomer” generation is reaching the later stages of life and are retiring and needing to seek more and more medical attention themselves. That is making the need for medical assistants, along with many other careers such as doctors, nurses, etc., to be in high demand also.
There are so many different job duties within the CMA scope of practice that they constantly have something to do during the workday that keeps them very busy. Staying busy during the workday is always a plus because it makes the day go by faster and you’re not just sitting or wandering around looking for little petty things to do just to pass time. A CMA with spare time on their hands can always find something useful to do such as catch up on paperwork, filing documents in patients’ medical records, documenting in patient charts, working on scheduling for the next day, cleaning supplies, clean or set up exam rooms, or many other tasks with their job description in order to keep them busy.
Along with the above listed reasons, there are other more minor reasons I chose medical assisting. One of the lesser important reasons being salary. I’m not saying salary is not an important aspect to consider when choosing a career because it definitely is but,