Medical Office Professionals - (Practical Career Guides) by Marcia Santore (Paperback)

About the Book

Medical Office Professionals includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers careers that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions. -Nurse Practitioner -Physician's Assistant -Medical Office Transcriptionist -Phlebotomist -Surgical Tech...

Book Synopsis

Medical Office Professionals includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers careers that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions.

• Nurse Practitioner
• Physician's Assistant
• Medical Office Transcriptionist
• Phlebotomist
• Surgical Technician
• Pharmacy Technician
• Optometry
• Sonographer.

• Surgical Technologist

Review Quotes

This career guidebook...may serve well in collections at community colleges with allied health programs and at four-year institutions supporting school counselor programs. Santore provides succinct yet useful overviews of eight healthcare-related careers. The educational and certification requirements for each career are readily offered, and relevant associations are listed. Brief advice regarding networking, resumé writing, and interviewing forges an introduction for those who have not yet actively entered the market. Perhaps the most interesting information for career seekers can be found tucked within the petite interviews of specialists who are currently working in the field.

About the Author

Marcia Santore is a writer and editor from New England. She has worked as a magazine editor and writer and has written on many topics, including profiles of artists, scholars, scientists, and business people in a way that's approachable for the general reader. See her writing website at www.amalgamatedstory.com.