16 tips for landing a practice administrator job

How to get noticed by healthcare recruiters

Start your career right with education, balance, teamwork and honesty 

How MGMA helps connect you to your profession 

The essentials for effective health care leadership 

More resources for entry-level health care careers and students

• Get the Money in the Door: Physician Billing Basics
  
  
• MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2009 Interactive Report Based on 2008 Data (CD)
  
  
• Medical Group Management Body of Knowledge Review Series, 2nd Edition with Knowledge Assessment
  
  
• Experts Answer 101 Tough Practice Management Questions 
  
  
• A+ Marketing: Proven Tactics for Success 
  
  
• The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Mastering Patient Flow: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Your Practice Operations, 3rd Edition 

• MGMA BootCamp: Essentials of Group Practice Management
  This six-week comprehensive online course (or two-month self-paced) covers essential concepts and skills required for medical practice management professionals. Upcoming classes  
  
  
• Online course: Financial Management Boot Camp
  
  
• Webinar CD: Stark Law 101
  

• List of U.S. health care recruitment companies 
  
  
• MGMA and ACMPE internship/residency program
  
  
• ACMPE Scholarship Fund program
  
  
• Medical Practice Administrator Sample Job Description 
  
  
• Assess your strengths and weaknesses with ACMPE's free technical/professional self-evaluation.
  
  

• Your career's definitive guide: Body of Knowledge for Medical Practice Management, 2nd Edition

• Accredited schools and degree programs for health care administration
  
  
• Market yourself online to thousands of health care employers looking to fill positions for which you're distinctly qualified – all through the easy-to-use MGMA Career Center.
  
  Average number of new opportunities in January: 596

• Certification for the Practice Administrator: Does it Make a Difference?
  By Judith D. Spero, FACMPE, July 2001 
  
  

• Mentoring and its value to the health care administrator
  By Andrea DeRosier, January 2001