Christ Health Center · 1 month ago
Medical Assistant – Urban Medicine Fellowship Gap Intern
Birmingham, AL
Internship
Onsite
InternChrist Health Center is seeking a Medical Assistant for their Urban Medicine Fellowship Gap Year Internship. The role involves assisting healthcare providers with routine medical procedures, maintaining medical equipment, and supporting patient care in an ambulatory setting.
DentalHealth CareMedicalPrimary and Urgent Care
Responsibilities
Interview patients to obtain and record medical history, vital statistics and information such as test results in electronic medical records
Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the provider
Explain treatment procedures, medications and providers’ instructions to patients
Prepare and stock treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and disposal of contaminated supplies
Perform general office duties to include back up to answering telephones, and scheduling appointments
Prepare and administer medications/immunizations
Assists with recognizing the needs and concerns of people within their cultural framework, and maintains constructive relationships in dealing with them
Understands CHC’s relationship with the community and maintains a positive image and relationships
Assists with initiating, implementing, and documenting patient and family teaching and documenting their response to teaching. This includes: preventative health teaching, patient/family’s perceptions of illness/problems and adaptation to care, all phone calls, and, identifies unsafe patient environment and intervenes responsibly
Maintains open communication with the Registered Nurses, Clinical Director, Mid-level providers, Physicians and other staff, reporting patient progress, abnormal diagnostic/assessment data, and notable health changes
Interprets CHC’s services and policies to patients and families
Assists with the coordination of patient flow for efficiency of providers giving care as deemed necessary by the nurse manager
Attends and participates in in-service education for staff, quality assurance program, and risk-management programs
Relieves and substitutes for other staff in other clinical areas as needed for clinic operations and/or other clerical staff as needed
Christ Health Center has an identifiable team structure and an organized staff to sustain team-based care. Each clinical Core Care Team providing care to patients will be comprised of at least one provider and at least one medical assistant. The Core Care Team members are expected to meet each morning prior to seeing the first patient, and review the Huddle Task List for that day
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
High School Diploma
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Effective interpersonal skills in a multi-cultural setting
Analytical skills
Attention to detail
Effective organization skills
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Ability to prioritize work
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
Ability to write simple correspondence and reports
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to patients, visitors, and other employees of the organization
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions
The ability to convey the information to others
Work requires the ability to lift objects weighing up to 20 pounds
Work requires ability to carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds
Work requires ability to sit +/- 90% of the time
Work requires ability to stoop and bend, to reach, and grab with arms and hands
Manual dexterity and to communicate with others
Work requires proofreading and checking documents for accuracy
Work requires ability to use a keyboard and visualize a computer monitor to enter words or data
OSHA personal exposure risk category II
Airborne personal exposure risk category I
Punctual and dependent for assigned/confirmed shifts
Preferred
Some College preferred
Bi-Lingual in Spanish is preferred
Company
Christ Health Center
The Christ Health Center offers primary care, dentistry, counseling, and medication therapy management through a pharmacy on site.
Founded in 2009
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
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Robert Record
CEO and Medical Director
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