Your Gap Year Can Be More Than a Resume Builder. It can be the year that confirms you're meant to practice medicine.
If you're the kind of person who color-codes your notes, enjoys solving complex problems, catches details everyone else misses, and thrives when every minute has a purpose, you'll probably love it here.
Rogers Dermatology isn't looking for someone to simply room patients. We're looking for a future physician or PA who wants to think critically, learn relentlessly, and become an indispensable part of a high-performing medical team.
You'll work side-by-side with physicians every day, documenting patient encounters in real time, assisting with surgical procedures, administering injections, processing biopsies, managing clinic flow, and learning the pace, precision, and accountability that medicine demands.
Every decision matters. Every detail matters. Every patient matters.
The Right Person...
· Loves systems, organization, and efficiency.
· Can keep five things moving without dropping one.
· Notices the typo, catches the missing biopsy label, and asks thoughtful questions.
· Wants constructive feedback because getting better matters.
· Finds satisfaction in accuracy…not "good enough."
· Wants a gap year that actually prepares them for medical school.
This role offers exposure to:
· Medical documentation and physician scribing
· Dermatologic procedures and surgeries
· Biopsy collection and specimen management
· EMR documentation
· Clinical decision-making
· Patient communication
· Time management in a high-volume practice
· How an exceptional medical office actually operates
You'll leave with skills that can't be learned in a classroom. We Think Like a Team.
We're looking for someone who takes ownership, communicates openly, supports their teammates, and genuinely cares about doing things the right way.
Who We're Looking For
· You're pursuing an MD, DO, or PA program.
· You enjoy being challenged.
· You learn quickly.
· You work hard.
· You like having high expectations because they make you better.
· If that sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.
Spend your gap year where every day teaches you something you'll carry into your medical career.
Primary Job Duties:
- Interview patients to obtain medical information.
- Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician quickly.
- Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
- Prior authorizations.
- Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.
- Collect tissue or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.
- Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
- Help physicians examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections or removing sutures.
- Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies.
- Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
- Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
- Schedule appointments for patients.
- Change dressings on wounds and removing sutures.
- Greet and log in patients arriving at office or clinic.
- Contact medical facilities or departments to schedule patients for tests or admission.
- Perform general office duties, such as answering telephones and voicemails, taking dictation, or completing insurance forms.
- Inventory and order medical, lab, or office supplies or equipment.
- Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
- Photographing skin diseases.
- Administering injections of local anesthetic and steroids.
- Other duties as assigned.
Activities:
Writing—Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Time Management—Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Speaking—Talking to others to convey information effectively. Speaking respectfully to providers and colleagues.
Social Perceptiveness—Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Service Orientation—Actively looking for ways to help people.
Reading Comprehension—Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Monitoring—Monitoring/qssessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Judgment and Decision Making—Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Critical Thinking—Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Coordination—Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Job Hazards:
General dermatology clinic with daily exposure to sharps and potential exposure to blood-borne pathogens. Periodic exposure to caustic agents. Likelihood of injury is low.
Body Positioning:
Job will require extended times of standing and moving around.
Work Attire :
Navy scrubs
Impact of Decisions:
Daily and minute-to-minute decisions that have significant impact on clinic flow and physician’s ability to see patients in timely manner. Great measure of responsibility in terms of keeping track of biopsy specimens and their delivery to laboratory. Losing a specimen can have grave consequences. First person to greet patient and they set tone for visit. Must be able to closely follow commands that facilitate appropriate patient care, such as setting up a surgical room correctly or being able to transcribe notes accurately so that patient records are accurate. Must be able to support the operations and interests of the office.
Pace and Scheduling:
This job requires constant monitoring of the clinic to make sure that the flow of patients from waiting room to exam rooms is not delayed and keeping the doctor on track with regard to time management and clinic flow. Willingness to take on new tasks as needed to facilitate patient care and clinic operations.
Rogers Dermatology | Charlevoix, MI
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $21.00 - $23.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
Application Question(s):
- Please explain what, if any, experience you have working as a Medical Assistant or in the field of Dermatology.
- If selected for the role, what hours would you be available to work?
- We have a second office location open once a week on Fridays in St. Ignace, MI. Are you able and willing to reliably commute to 1140 N. State St., St. Ignace, MI 49781 once a week on Fridays? Yes or No
Experience:
- EMR systems: 1 year (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Charlevoix, MI 49720 (Required)
Work Location: In person
