Medical Assistant-Gastroenterology-Fresh Meadows

NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens.

NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Groups (NYPMG) are part of the physician enterprise of NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic health care delivery systems affiliated with two world-renowned medical schools.  Through primary care and multispecialty medical practices, the physicians and other health care professionals of NYPMG, in collaboration with Columbia Doctors and Weill Cornell Physicians, provide families with high quality, patient-centered care close to home in the New York metropolitan area.

Certified Medical Assistant performs a variety of clinical and clerical functions, in accordance with established policies and procedures, to assist the practitioners and management in daily office operations.  This is a technical position with no supervisory responsibility. As a Medical Assistant in our practice you will:

• Prep and assist in the exam room
• Triage Patients
• Collects urine and draw blood samples
• Take and record height, weight, blood pressure, temperature, and pulse of patients

This is a Full Time 36.25 hours position Monday-Friday with variable shifts 7:00AM-5:00 overtime as needed.  May be required to cover for other practice locations within Queens.

Bilingual candidates would be a plus (English Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese)

Preferred Criteria

• Medical Assistant experience within a healthcare setting.
• Current Medical Assistant Certification (CMA) or Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) certification through AAMA, AMT,NHA or NCCT
• 1 year of experience in a gastroenterology practice
• Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking

Required Criteria

• High School Diploma or equivalent GED.
• Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program.
• A minimum of one year medical assistant experience or internship in a physician  practice
• National Medical Assistant Certification