Medical Secretary job description

Entry takes a high school education and then several months of learning the vocabulary, which is the part BLS singles out: medical secretaries train longer than other secretaries because the job runs on medical terminology, codes, records, and hospital and laboratory procedure. The daily work is scheduling and correspondence for physicians, preparing reports and letters, handling referral and admission paperwork, keeping records straight, and processing insurance. BLS counted 979,000 medical secretaries and administrative assistants in 2025 and median pay of $45,930 for May 2025, inside a wider secretarial group whose wages ran from $35,360 to $77,720 at the reported extremes.