Medical Assistant II - Fertility Assistant
 Massachusetts General Hospital | |
 United States, Massachusetts, Boston | |
| 32 Fruit Street (Show on map) | |
 Jul 22, 2025 | |
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Summary:
This role involves assisting with a wide range of procedures, labs, and OR functions to support patient care. Responsibilities include preparing patients for exams, obtaining vital signs, collecting specimens, and performing point-of-care testing. The role supports various in-office procedures such as ultrasounds, hysteroscopies, biopsies, and polypectomies while maintaining detailed clinical documentation. In the OR, responsibilities include assisting with oocyte retrievals, embryo transfers, and other operative procedures using sterile techniques. Additional duties involve phlebotomy, lab requisitions, equipment sterilization, and ensuring compliance with infection control guidelines. Does this position require Patient Care? Yes Essential Functions: -Assists junior Medical Assistants with day-to-day questions and responsibilities and helps facilitate their learning by participating in onboarding training. -Show patients to examination rooms, prepare necessary equipment for healthcare providers, and interview patients to obtain medical information, measure their vital signs, weight, and height, and record information in the patient's medical record. -Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, and physician instructions to patients, ordering and organizing educational materials to reinforce patient education. -Perform general office duties, such as answering phones, taking dictation, and completing insurance forms, while acting as a liaison with other departments and advocating for patients with a positive customer service approach. -Collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log them, and prepare them for testing; perform phlebotomy if competence is demonstrated. -Maintains inventory of immunizations and check expiration dates. -Provides immunizations (as applicable) which requires certification or 3 years of experience administering a vaccine and supervision of a provider. -Responsible for improving appropriate departmental quality initiatives, such as two patient identifiers and hand hygiene. Education Certified Medical Assistant [National Certification] preferred Physical Requirements The General Hospital Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. | |