The medical assistant will serve as an aid to the Interventional Radiologists on staff as a clinical flow medical assistant and secretary. This requires flexibility with multitasking and patience.
Duties include learning and working in the EMR/Ris system to help the Radiology department with escorting the patients to and from waiting rooms and ultrasound rooms, answering calls for the clinical staff and physicians, preparing surgical procedure carts and equipment for biopsies, cleaning and sanitizing procedural areas, assisting the physicians with patients in procedure and stereotactic rooms, communicating the physicians needs to other departments, pathologists and referring physicians, working with the front desk check in/out staff to hand off patients with professional customer service skills and empathy, contacting labs, and other general secretarial duties to allow the Radiologists to focus on reading images in a fast pace environment. Inventory tracking of medical supplies such as biopsy needles, syringes, gauze, ice packs, etc.. basically working as part of a customer service team to help with the flow of patients, inputting documentation and review of patient information to vocalize to the physician the status of the workflow.
As clinical flow you will need a solid background of trust and professionalism and caring for female patients being seen for cancer screening and diagnostic imaging. Ability to work the business hours your scheduled to work with little absenteeism to be dependable and present for Team efficiency. Must be comfortable with the sight of blood, applying pressure to biopsy sites to stop the flow of blood if needed and run errands for the physician and patients.