Clinical Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical managers are a type of medical and health services manager that work in both administrative and medical capacities. Clinical managers often work for doctors’ offices, clinics, long-term care facilities, and outpatient facilities. Typical duties of a clinical manager include:

Ø  Managing clinical, professional, administrative, and clerical staff

Ø  Managing the recruitment

Ø  Development of, and appraisal of staff

Ø  Overseeing day-to-day management

Ø  Developing and implementing policies and directive

Ø  Setting and monitoring budgets

Ø  Attending meetings

Ø  Handling communications

Ø  Make purchasing decisions

Salary: The median annual wage is $88,580

Educational Requirements:

In order to become a clinical manager, it is required to have an ability to consume, absorb, and analyze large amounts of information and also a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a field like medical services administration or health care administration. To earn a bachelor’s degree, does interested should take the following courses:

Ø  Health care law and ethics

Ø  Health care financial management

Ø  Organization and management in health care

Ø  Information systems for health care

Ø  Health care administration

Ø  Case management

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Reflection: I don’t think I would like to be a clinical manager because its not a field that i'm interested in and it seems too stressful.