MEDICAL SECRETARIES: Perform secretarial duties utilizing specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties include taking dictation and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence using a typewriter. Duties may also include preparing and sending bills to patients or recording appointments.

• Apply industry terms/concepts
• Apply interpersonal communication techniques
• Compile/maintain medical records
• Compose business correspondence
• Inventory medical supplies and instruments
• Keep records & maintain files
• Maintain libraries
• Make appointments
• Manage medical records
• Operate business machines
• Organize & work with detailed office or warehouse records
• Organize office processes
• Organize/evaluate medical records
• Perform secretarial duties in health care setting
• Post medical insurance billings
• Prepare business correspondence
• Process/prepare business/government forms
• Review journals/publications for doctor
• Schedule appointments
• Transcribe handwritten information as part of administrative support
• Understand & use medical terminology
• Understand government medical billing regulations
• Use coding and abstract data in automated medical records system
• Use computer
• Use computer keyboard
• Use computers to enter, access & retrieve client data
• Use correct grammar, punctuation & spelling
• Use medical office procedures
• Use office equipment in support of medical practice/services
• Use proofreading symbols
• Use shorthand
• Use spreadsheet software
• Use telecommunication equipment in health care setting
• Use word processing software