Medical documentation assistant
The medical documentation assistant (MDA) or state-certified medical documentation assistant is a profession regulated by state law. The job description includes organization and documentation, statistics and data processing in medicine (see medical documentation ).
requirements
A secondary school leaving certificate is required as an entry requirement for training as a medical documentation assistant.
education
Training as a medical documentation assistant takes two to three years, depending on the federal state, and consists of the fields of medicine, statistics, documentation, IT, organization, profession and law. Theoretical knowledge is deepened through two to three specialist internships at various points. The training is mainly offered at private schools.
Areas of application
Due to the combination of basic knowledge from the fields of documentation, medicine and statistics with extensive and well-founded IT knowledge, medical documentation assistants have a wide range of uses.
For example, they are required in:
- Hospitals , university clinics and institutes
- Tumor centers
- Research institutes
- Health authorities
- Pharmaceutical Industry
Areas of responsibility
- Billing according to diagnosis related groups
- Quality management
- Research / clinical studies