Medical assistants are multi-skilled health care professionals. Clinical Medical Assistant renders basic patient care and performs certain clinical procedures, such as taking history, vital signs, phlebotomy, dosage calculations, injections, ECGs and many other clinical tasks. AAMA Role Delineation Study, published in 2005, reported that medical assistants will also be responsible for patient education, supervisory and management tasks.

The medical assistant must have excellent written and oral communication skills, high moral and ethical standards, and good interpersonal skills to assume such roles. Maturity, initiative, and responsibility are also requisites. Critical- thinking and problem-solving skills are a must for the medical assistant in order to promote and evaluate client care outcomes.

Thus, this profession is classified as a diversified, multi-skilled health career that enables the medical assistant to explore many employment options include, but are not limited toPhysicians' offices, Medical Group, County Health Services, Federal Patient Care Assistant, Pharmaceutical Clinical Research Associate Assistant, etc.