MEDICAL SECRETARY

JOB SUMMARY

Performs laboratory duties that are exempt from laboratory personnel licensing laws. Duties include patient registration, sample accessioning, processing specimens for other laboratories, order entry, report generation, billing functions and maintenance, customer relations, phone duty, housekeeping, inventory management, and other duties as assigned.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education and/or experience: High school graduate or equivalent required, and should have office training, computer training, medical terminology training, or experience considered equal to this training.

Knowledge: Knowledge of medical terminology, office functions, includes: filing, phone systems and faxing, phone etiquette, and customer relations, understands how to function as part of a team.

Skills: Requires excellent written and oral communication skills, including: English usage, grammar, punctuation and style; needs excellent listening and pronunciation skills. Requires good computer skills.

Abilities: Able to work independently with minimal supervision, work under pressure with time constraints and to multitask. Ability to understand extensive laboratory diagnostic test menu; able to learn a complicated registration and billing system. Must have the ability to use designated reference materials, operate designated computers and software programs.