Parkland's Medical Assistant Program prepares students to act as a liaison between the physician and the patient. Medical assistants are skilled in both clinical and administrative areas. In the administrative area typical tasks include medical records management and EMR, awareness of insurance, billing and coding, and patient scheduling.   

Clinical tasks may include taking vital signs, EKGs, venipuncture, administering medications and immunizations, sterile instrumentation, height/weight measurements, specimen collection, and point of care testing.   

Medical assistants primarily work in outpatient settings but may work in hospitals, medical billing companies, or any place office skills and medical knowledge merge.