"Throughout my experience as a medical assistant, I have learned several administrative skills. Some of those include medical coding and billing, handling correspondence and appointments, and helping to facilitate hospital admissions by providing the proper documentation to the receiving facility."

As a medical assistant, your experience with administrative skills is a great asset. This is a good chance to give yourself a pat on the back, so to speak. Just remember, highlight your skills, but be prepared to follow through with proficiency if you say you are able to perform a particular skill.

"I actually worked as an administrative assistant before I chose to become a medical assistant. The skills I learned during that part of my career are something that I have been able to utilize as a medical assistant. Some of those include accessing and documenting information in electronic health records, transmitting electronic physician orders and obtaining reports from labs and other outside sources."