Clinical Manager

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Duties and Responsibilities: Clinical managers, a type of medical and health services manager, Clinical managers often work for doctors’ offices, clinics, long-term care facilities, and outpatient facilities. Typical duties of a clinical manager include managing clinical, professional, administrative, and clerical staff; managing the recruitment, development of, and appraisal of staff; overseeing day-to-day management; developing and implementing policies and directives; setting and monitoring budgets; attending meetings; handling communications; and making purchasing decisions.

Salary: $88,580 per year

Education: Generally, you’ll need to have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a field like medical services administration or healthcare administration.  . Coursework in a relevant 4-year, bachelor degree program includes courses on health care law and ethics, health care financial management, organization and management in health care, information systems for health care, health care administration, and case management.

Reflection: I would not like to be one because I don’t really like the medical field.