SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Person who provides assistance to one or more physicians or professionals, or to a work team, in their administrative and professional duties. He or she prepares medical records, reports and requests for analyses, operating protocols or other documents based on typed, handwritten or dictated texts and enters them on a computer application. The Medical Secretary also prints out such documents and has them distributed to the personnel concerned. He or she may be required to deal with service users, book appointments, and receive and forward messages to personnel concerned and service users. The Medical Secretary handles the mail, writes correspondence and updates the filing of records.

SPECIFIC FUNCTION
• The Medical Secretary creates, develops and nurtures culturally appropriate interactions and connections with each other, clients and the community;
• Prints out such documents and has them distributed to the personnel concerned;