To strengthen our team, we are seeking a medical assistant (MFA) for reception and consultation hours.
You can expect a modern, quality-oriented practice with a highly motivated team. We offer you a challenging and varied field of work, with a focus on surgical procedures in addition to conservative orthopedics.
We value your personal commitment. In return, you can expect above-average compensation.
You see yourself as a competent and friendly contact person for patients and business partners, as well as in all matters relating to practice management.
Your responsibilities:
• First point of contact for patients and business partners
• Management of email correspondence
• Management of reception
• IT-supported organization, implementation, and optimization of workflows
• Administrative tasks
• Implementation of marketing activities
Your profile:
• You have completed training as a medical assistant or comparable qualification, possibly with further training as a practice manager
• You have professional experience in orthopedics or surgery/trauma surgery
• You have very good IT skills (Medistar / MS Office)
• You have organizational skills.
• You are resilient and enjoy multitasking.
• You set high standards for yourself and others and enjoy successful teamwork.
• You enjoy working with people and are empathetic and assertive.
• You work conscientiously, reliably, and in a structured manner.
On-call duty or night shifts are not expected.
Please send us your complete application documents, preferably by email or in writing.
Many patients send us their x-rays for review every day. Sending conventional x-ray images on transparencies is particularly tedious and time-consuming for everyone involved. However, it's very easy to digitize these images and then send them to us via email or upload.
Digitizing x-rays works surprisingly well with simple cameras, like those found in virtually every cell phone these days. The advantage of cell phones is that the images can usually be emailed directly from the phone. However, any standard digital camera is also ideal for digitizing x-rays.
Our short video describes the techniques used to take good x-ray images.
In front of the TV, we're all experts in tennis or soccer, but on the pitch, opinions differ. Amateur soccer players have about as much in common with a Bundesliga soccer player as a VW Polo has with a Formula 1 racing car.
This means that many doctors are very well versed in the theory of their field. They treat their patients correctly and give the right advice. However, when it comes to surgery, theory is no longer enough.
What does a heart transplant have in common with intestinal surgery?
About as much as soccer has with golf. Both are played on grass, and you have a ball. But that's where the similarities end.
Surgery is very similar. Certain basic skills are always the same, such as closing the wound with sutures. The rest of the procedure, however, is usually highly specialized and not comparable.
Of course, an orthopedist or surgeon has performed a variety of different operations during their training. Recreational sports can be seen as a similar phenomenon. Many people practice a variety of different sports in their free time. With a lot of talent, they can achieve respectable results in one or another. However, they are miles away from the Bundesliga or world elite. To reach this level, a tremendous focus on a single sport is required. In addition to talent, years of intensive training are essential to be at the top.
Surgery has become so specialized today that even disciplines like orthopedics are highly specialized. To continue the comparison with sports, ball sports can be considered here. Hockey, handball, and soccer are all sports in which a ball must be put into a goal. Nevertheless, the techniques are so fundamentally different that no one would expect a world-class hockey player to also be a world-class soccer player.
For orthopedics, this means that it is not to be expected that a top foot surgeon is also a top hip or shoulder surgeon. Here, too, a high degree of specialization and, above all, a great deal of practice are required to become truly excellent in this one small area.
Even in arthroscopies, where the basic skills are very similar, the procedures are now further subdivided due to the increasing complexity of the procedures. For example, you can now find specialists for knee, shoulder, or hip arthroscopy who specialize in these joints.
You can also find these specialists in soccer. On the soccer field, there are strikers, midfielders, and defense specialists. Each one is an absolute expert in their field. If a coach wants the best result—in other words, victory—they will seek out such specialists, train with them, and then deploy them precisely in their area of expertise. This way, they can be sure of achieving the best results.
For patients, this means they should seek out such a specialist if they require surgery. It's not the "recreational athlete" who promises the best results, but rather the focused, highly specialized doctor with extensive training and experience in their field.
Specialists aren't always easy to identify at first glance. They differ from their less specialized colleagues in the fact that they don't perform all types of operations. This means they don't operate on hands, feet, elbows, knees, shoulders, etc. They limit themselves to a maximum of one or two joints and perform a larger number of operations on these joints.
Once the operation is complete, follow-up treatment begins. Information about the operation and the planned follow-up treatment is extremely important for everyone involved, such as doctors and physiotherapists. Unfortunately, the flow of information, especially between doctors and physiotherapists, is often very slow. However, since physiotherapy is extremely important for the success of the entire treatment, we want to address this.
To improve quality, from now on, every patient will receive their complete medical records before leaving our surgery center. This means that on the day of surgery, our patients will receive two detailed surgical reports, one for the attending physician and one for their physiotherapist, as well as detailed instructions for follow-up treatment.
This measure optimally regulates the flow of information, and no patient has to chase after their records after the operation to inform their doctors and therapists. This way, serious errors in follow-up treatment can be avoided right from the start.
To achieve this goal, a greater logistical effort is required than initially appears. A new color laser printer and a notebook were purchased for data processing. To process the reports with our practice's IT system, a new network connection must be created between the operating room and our practice's IT system at the Saarlouis Medical Center.
This will be accomplished via a modern Lancom 3G VPN router that wirelessly connects our new notebook, the printer, and the arthroscopy tower's digital image archiving system to the practice.
State-of-the-art technology for increased quality for the benefit of our patients.
