Employers
Approximately 530,360 medical secretaries are employed in the United States. Medical secretaries work in private physicians' offices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency care facilities, research laboratories, and large health organizations, such as the Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic. A majority of medical secretaries work with one or two physicians practicing in a clinical out-patient care setting. The remainder provide support to physicians and scientists in clinical and research laboratories, hospitals, or Mayo Clinic's medical school.
Starting Out
To find work in this field, you should apply directly to hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices. Potential positions might be listed with school or college career services centers, on jobs search Web sites, or in newspaper want ads. Networking with medical secretaries is another inside track to job leads, because employers tend to trust employee recommendations.
- Adult Day Care Coordinators
- Business Managers
- Cancer Registrars
- Cardiologists
- Clinic Managers
- Clinical Data Managers
- Clinical Research Coordinators
- Community Health Program Coordinators
- Contact Tracers
- Dental Assistants
- Dental Hygienists
- Dental Laboratory Technicians
- Dental Therapists
- Dentists
- Directors of Telehealth
- Endodontists
- Futurists
- Geriatric Care Managers
- Geriatric Social Workers
- Health Advocates
- Health Care Consultants
- Health Care Insurance Navigators
- Health Care Managers
- Health Data Analysts
- HIV/AIDS Counselors and Case Managers
- Hospitalists
- Informatics Nurse Specialists
- Medical Ethicists
- Medical Record Technicians
- Medical Transcriptionists
- Nurse Managers
- Nursing Home Administrators
- Oral Surgeons
- Orthodontists
- Pediatric Dentists
- Periodontists
- Prosthodontists
- Receptionists
- Rehabilitation Counselors
- Social Workers
- Transplant Coordinators