Are you interested in pursuing a career as a medical assistant, but are not entirely sure of what that entails? There are 2 different aspects of a medical assistant. You can be one the office side of the medical world, making patient appointments, imputing medical data into the system and miscellaneous bookkeeping and paperwork. While you may have some interaction with patient’s, as far as checking them in and making their appointments, that is far as your interaction with them goes. The other side of medical assisting is more one on one time with the patients. You will have the chance to take their blood pressure, their temperatures and also weigh them, accurately filling out all of the information on their patient charts. There are many different types of jobs for medical assistants available. Deciding whether or not you want to work directly with patients will help you to narrow down your choices.