Medical Assistant resume keywords
Most medical assistant applications are screened by software before a person reads them: the ATS ranks resumes by how many of the posting's words they contain. The lists below are the terms that show up most in medical assistant job ads. Use the ones that are true for you, with the same spelling the ad uses.
Hard skills and ATS keywords
- Vital signs
- Phlebotomy
- Injections
- EHR (Epic)
- Patient intake
- Scheduling
- Insurance verification
- HIPAA compliance
- Patient intake
- Vital signs
- Phlebotomy
- EHR
- Injections
- Medical terminology
- Scheduling
- Insurance verification
- CMA / RMA
- HIPAA
Soft skills recruiters look for
- Compassion
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
- Communication
- Professionalism
Soft skills only count when a bullet proves them. "Team player" is ignored; "Room and prepare 30+ patients a day across 3 physicians." shows it.
Action verbs to start your bullets
- Assisted
- Recorded
- Administered
- Scheduled
- Performed
- Reduced
- Prepared
- Educated
How to use these keywords
- Mirror the job ad: if it says "Patient intake", do not write a synonym.
- Put the top 6–8 in a skills section and repeat the key ones inside experience bullets with a number.
- Never list a skill you cannot talk about in an interview.
- Keep the file text-based (no skills inside images or tables), or the ATS cannot read it.
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