Medical Administrative Assistants
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Job description
These individuals perform secretarial and administrative tasks in a medical environment.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Make and confirm appointments with doctors.
- Transmit messages to medical staff and patients.
- Enter and format documents (medical reports, electronic correspondence, spreadsheets, etc.).
- Interview patients in order to complete their records.
- Fill out forms for the payment of insurance and claims.
- Keep medical records and documents and ensure their confidentiality.
- Prepare meetings and take and distribute minutes.
- Prepare financial statements and invoices.
- Order supplies and maintain inventory.
- Establish and enforce office routines and procedures.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $19.00
- Median
- $23.35
- Maximum
- $28.00
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
6,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 96.9% Female
- 3.1% Male
Not available.
- 96.9% Female
- 3.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$43,600
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62393% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 411% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62393% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 411% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
AVS in secrétariat médical
Code : 5374
Placement rate: 84.9%
5.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Knowledge of the existing computerized system may be required or an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Social perception
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Critical thought
- Coordination
- Written expression
- Service oriented
- Active learning
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Teaching
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Information organization
- Classification
- Inductive reasoning
- Digital dexterity
- Time sharing
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Knowledge of the French language
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Sense of initiative
- Friendliness
- Respect others
- Knowledge of office work
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Official name of the NOC 13112
Medical administrative assistants
Job titles
- Medical administrative assistant
- Administrative assistant - medical
- Ward secretary
- Medical secretary
- Medical stenographer
- Case load planner - home health care services
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026
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