Job Description:

• 1) Interviews new outpatients at hospital or clinic and records data on medical charts: Obtains specified information from patient, such as age, insurance coverage, and symptoms, and types information onto prescribed forms.

• 2) Places records and blank history sheets in order and files them in folder.

• 3) Schedules appointments for examinations in hospital clinics, according to nature of illness.

• 4) Gives general information about outpatient care and answers telephone.

• 5) May tally number of outpatients entering each day or week.

• 6) May give first aid.