Medical Assistants
Assisting the submarine Independent Duty Corpsman with medical programs provides a foundation for civilian clinical support work.
How to prepare: Compare your documented military training and performed duties with medical assistant patient-intake and recordkeeping tasks to identify gaps for supervised practice.
What the civilian work involves
- Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
- Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Epic Systems