Occupation Atlasdoctors' surgery assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0c041d1e-1841-4acb-b0a1-2c387a61bf65
doctors' surgery assistant
Doctors' surgery assistants support doctors of medicine in medical measures, in performing simple support activities during medical procedures, standardised diagnostic programmes and standardised point-of-care tests, ensuring surgery hygiene, cleaning, disinfecting, sterilising and maintaining medical devices and performing the organisational and administrative tasks required for operating a doctor`s surgery under supervision, following the orders of the doctor of medicine.
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
RCSRealistic · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.26
- C Conventional4.85
- S Social3.82
- I Investigative3.22
- E Enterprising1.61
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Surgical Technologists (29-2055.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (46)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- anaesthetics
- answer patients' questions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- assist in epilepsy surgery
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- health records management
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- maintain treatment records
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- operate patients with thoracic diseases
- perform reconstructive plastic surgery
- process medical insurance claims
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide pre-treatment information
- provide test results to medical staff
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- surgical asepsis
- techniques of blood-sampling
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (20)
- administer appointments
- analyse X-ray imagery
- assist patients with special needs
- assist with hemostasis
- clinical reports
- collect biological samples from patients
- conduct polysomnography
- customer service
- e-procurement
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- perform procurement processes
- perform venepuncture procedures
- radiological procedures
- record healthcare users' billing information
- spine surgery
- supervise medical office support workers
- take blood samples
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use venepuncture procedure equipment
- wound closure techniques
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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