Medical/Health Management and Clinical Assistant/Specialist
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Overview
Medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist is a program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians, nurses, or other health care professionals, to perform medical office or facilities management services and perform one or more clinical allied health specialties. includes instruction in health care management; medical office administration; medical law and regulations; training in one or more diagnostic, treatment, therapy, or laboratory specialties at the assistant level or above; and applicable professional standards and ethics.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($64K) with a Certificate: McLennan Community College
Medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
Have completions for health and medical administrative services changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.
How are students who recently completed a degree in medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field health and medical administrative services, which includes
medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist.
Recommended careers for those with a degree in health and medical administrative services
Following are the jobs recommended for those who study Health and Medical Administrative Services (which combines 8 programs). These are listed in order of highest nationwide employment.
Recommended Careers for health and medical administrative services majors
Is this degree preparing you for a career with a salary you want? Are there lots of openings in the near future? The Department of Education suggests these careers as a starting list, and Ididio hopes that if the career you're most interested in doesn't appear here, you will head over to our Career Explorer and learn more about paths to your best career.
Explore schools that offer medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
Understanding the columns
The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an
idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor
suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students
should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough
to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by
full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
Careers for health and medical administrative services majors
health and medical administrative services is part of a larger collection of programs: Healthcare office support. Is there a different program that's close to health and medical administrative services that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
For health and medical administrative services graduates, men have a 30% higher median salary than women, This is high: 83% of programs have graduates with lower salary inequities.
Here is an overview of race/origin for all medical/health management and clinical assistant/specialist graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 64% of other programs.