Certified Medical Assistant, Student Health Center

Job Description Summary

The GW Student Health Center (SHC) at George Washington University provides confidential, student-centered care in a safe, culturally sensitive environment. The Certified Medical Assistant supports students’ physical and emotional well‑being to promote academic success.

• Manage clinic patient flow: monitor arrival, escort patients to exam rooms, and inform providers of patient location.
• Obtain and record vital signs (height, weight, blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, pulse oximetry, visual acuity, orthostatic blood pressures).
• Transcribe vital signs to Point and Click (PnC) electronic medical record accurately and promptly.
• Perform CLIA‑waived diagnostic testing and screening:
  • Rapid strep testing
  • Flu testing
  • COVID/Flu testing
  • Monospot testing
  • Urinalysis and urine culture
  • Urine pregnancy testing
• Collect laboratory specimens:
  • Throat culture
  • Urine culture
  • GC/CT throat
  • GC/CT urine
• Maintain COVID and flu logs and enter point‑of‑care lab results into PnC.
• Assist providers with examinations and procedures:
  • Ear lavage
  • Fluorescein eye exams
  • Suturing
  • Wound care
  • IV fluids
• Administer intramuscular injections and other medications (oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous, inhalation, topical) using proper technique.
• Order titers and Quantiferon Gold testing for nurses.
• Explain test procedures to patients and assist with specimen collection.
• Restock, clean, and prepare exam rooms, the SHC lab, and the bathroom. Light cleaning may be occasionally required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field, conferred by the start date.
• Equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be substituted.

• Licensure
  • Current basic CPR/AED
  • Medical Assistant certification
• Education
  • High school graduate
  • Certification and registration as a Medical Assistant
• Experience
  • At least 6 months in a primary‑care setting (hospital, physician’s office, or ambulatory care).

The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.