Medical Assistant - Primary Care Clinic

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans seeks a student to support clinical operations, assist with patient arrival, and help maintain smooth clinic flow. You will contribute to documenting patient records in EMR, coordinating tests, and ensuring safety and privacy in daily practice.

The role emphasizes basic computer skills, data entry, and analytical abilities to prioritize tasks and support healthcare teams. Training and supervision are provided as part of the clinical education program.

Qualifications

• Official gap year student status from accredited medical schools.
• Acceptance into medical school.
• Admittance to a bachelor's degree program (minimum).
• MCAT, PA-CAT or GRE scheduled or already passed preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with patient arrival, scheduling, and clinic flow.
• Document patient records in EMR and coordinate tests.
• Maintain clinic supplies and equipment and safety standards.
• Support infection control and HIPAA compliance.

Skills

Data entry

Basic computer skills

Analytical skills

Education

Gap year student status

Acceptance into medical school

Bachelor's degree program admission

MCAT/PA-CAT/GRE scheduled or passed

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

GENERAL DUTIES

Your job is more than a job

Clinical: Measures and records appropriate vital signs, identifies abnormal values and reports findings to the appropriate nursing staff or medical provider. Assists with patient arrival to the clinic, schedules new and follow-up patient appointments and facilitates a smooth patient exit from clinic. Recognizes emergencies and responds appropriately in adherence to organizational policy and procedure. Provides for comfort needs of patients with consideration of age and special needs. Demonstrates a working knowledge of clinic equipment, including preparation of equipment, testing of equipment for safety prior to use on patient, cleaning and disinfecting of equipment (between patients and at clinic’s end) according to hospital policy. Maintains linens, supplies, equipment for clinic use and stocks exam rooms/tables appropriately. Properly collects, prepares, secures laboratory specimens for testing and/or transport when necessary.
Documentation: Documents patient medical record according to established departmental guidelines. Properly navigates Electronic Medical Record to obtain laboratory and radiology results, coordinates the collection of outside medical records, when necessary.
Updates patient demographic data and schedules follow-up appointments. Prepares safety reports when warranted or as directed by the Clinic Manager/designee. Maintains privacy of patient personal health information by ensuring computer screens are secure in the absence of medical/nursing/clinical staff.
Professionalism and Support: Demonstrates honesty, promptness, dependability, courtesy and respect in interactions with patients, caregivers, customers, co-workers and staff. Consults and keeps clinic manager informed of clinic activities, requirements, and problems. Demonstrates ability to manage patient and/or co-worker complaints in a calm, positive, non-judgmental manner, and reports these events to clinic manager on a daily basis. Maintains strict patient confidentiality exemplified by discussing issues only with appropriate persons and in a place and manner.
Safety and Infection Control: Implements standard and transmission-based precautions, per hospital policy. Ensures patient safety during clinic visits, per hospital policy. Reports any safety hazards or violations in patient or clinic environment to Clinic Manager or designee. Actively participates in Quality Improvement Process, including QAPI projects and EOC Rounds.
Clerical Support: Participates in the clinic preparation process by gathering appropriate clinical documentation for review by the medical provider. Obtains medical records from outside facilities when needed or requested by medical provider. Scans outside correspondence into the appropriate area of the electronic medical record. Answers the telephone and routes calls promptly to the appropriate person.

Minimum Qualifications

• Required: Official Gap Year Student Status from Accredited Medical Schools.
• Required: Acceptance into Medical School
• Required: Admittance to a bachelor's degree program (minimum)
• Students with MCAT, PA-CAT or GRE already scheduled or already passed preferred.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from American Heart Association.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities (ksa)

General Knowledge

• General knowledge of medical terminology
• General knowledge pertaining to Joint Commission guidelines
• Knowledge of HIPAA regulations pertaining to patient medical records

Abilities

• Ability to obtain and maintain accurate patient medical records.

Skills

• Basic computer and data entry skills MS Office applications (Word, Excel and Power Point)
• Analytical skills to determine job priorities, multi-task and work independently.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

• Does this position formally supervise employees? No

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen.
While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way.
Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.