Author Archives: Dr. Helga George

About Dr. Helga George

Dr. George has spent several years writing about higher education, healthcare and psychology. She transitioned to a career in writing after fulfilling her lifelong dream of performing research on plant defense chemicals. She earned a BS in Agriculture from Cornell University, an MS in Plant Pathology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Cornell University. Helga also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California Santa Barbara where she obtained a USDA grant to fund her research.

With Medical Assistants On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Response, Today’s MA Students are Preparing for a Field That May Never Be the Same Again

No one needs to tell medical assistants about the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States… they are seeing it firsthand, as many show up to work every day to hospitals flooded with patients in respiratory distress. Out …

The Screener, the Prepper, and the Swabber: Top 3 Roles for MAs at Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing Sites

The COVID-19 pandemic has gone through a strange pattern in the United States, surging to crisis levels in major urban centers like New York and New Orleans, then subsiding briefly before coming back hard and strong in more rural states …

Medical Assistants Save Lives in War Zones and Abroad

Until recently San Diego native Derek Coleman was working as a machinist in a factory. Today he finds himself in a field trauma center outside the city of Mosul in Iraq, one of today’s most active war zones. Speaking about …

Chinese Company Releases a Medical Assistant Chatbot

While medical assistants are an indispensable part of Western medicine, this appears to not be the case in China. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, announced in October 2016 that it had produced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The company named its …

Louisiana Workforce Announces Free Medical Assistant Training in the River Parishes

The Louisiana Workforce Commission in partnership with Ochsner Health Systems is offering a free medical assistant training program to the River Parishes. The new training program will give job seekers the opportunity to train for one of the many current …

Medical Assistant Recognition Week Celebrated

Medical Assistant Recognition Week (MARWeek), which takes place each year in the third full week of October, was developed to honor the efforts of thousands of medical assistants across the United States. It is endorsed by the American Association of …

A Quick Guide to the AAMA’s 60th Annual Conference in 2016

Medical assistant students and professionals alike recognize the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) as a household name, as they should. The AAMA is easily the leading authority on education and certification for medical assistants in the country. So what …

Ohio Now Allows Supervised Medical Assistants to Administer Drugs

Ohio just streamlined the procedures for administering drugs to patients and will allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to delegate medication administration in outpatient settings to unlicensed allied health professionals such as medical assistants. Senate Bill 110 was just passed …

Medical Workers on Edge about the Measles Outbreak

In 2000, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) stated that the Measles were no longer a danger to the US and that the only way it could potentially ever be a threat again is if it was brought onto American …