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__Medical Assistant__


 * Job Description and Working Conditions****:

A medical assistant may be required to inter view patients, measure blood pressure, heart rate, temperature...etc You also have to write down the information on charts. The conditions of being a medical assistant are that they are varied. most medical assistants work up to 40 hours a week, and even some mornings and evenings. Other conditions may be running around for those 40 hours a week or more.

__Educational Requirements.__

You have to have a license to do some procedures, such as surgery and shots. They want you to have a license to do some procedures because lets say you were doing surgery and you didn't have a license to do it, something could go wrong and he patient could get hurt more badly than they already are. You also have to have a degree,a deploma,a college application etc. The amount of years of college to be a medical assistant is around 1-2 years.

__Starting and Potential Earnings__ When starting a medical assistant job you first start out at $11-13 dollars an hour, but as time goes by and you are getting your hours in, you will manage to come about $15-16 dollars an hour. It is also usually $24,610 per year and $1,900 to $2,200 monthly.

__Future Outlook__

A medical assistant's job outlook is "Excellent" because employment is expected to grow much more faster than average. Which means that more jobs will be available to those whom are looking.

__Websites__

http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/455/Medical-Assistant.html

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos164.htm **