Job prospects Medical Secretary in Québec

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Job opportunities in Québec

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be very good for Medical administrative assistants (NOC 13112) in Quebec for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

This occupation is in high demand due to the growing and aging population and government healthcare priorities.

A growing and aging population is increasing the demand for health care. The opening of new health care facilities, medical clinics and offices of other health care professionals will fuel demand for this occupation. New services in existing establishments will also create new positions.

Due to significant staffing needs in several healthcare and social assistance occupations, establishments are creating new positions in this occupation to relieve health care staff of administrative tasks.

The implementation of new technologies is gradually changing the work of medical administrative assistants by automating several routine tasks that they normally carried out, such as scheduling appointments, invoicing and sending reminders, which allows them to perform more complex tasks.

Here are some key facts about Medical administrative assistants in Quebec:

• Approximately 30,550 people work in this occupation.
• Medical administrative assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 49%
  • Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621): 39%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 82% compared to 82% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 18% compared to 18% for all occupations
• 68% of medical administrative assistants work all year, while 32% work only part of the year, compared to 62% and 38% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 44 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• Less than 5% of medical administrative assistants are self-employed compared to an average of 12% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: less than 5% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: more than 95% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 16% compared to 19% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 38% compared to 19% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 31% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 8% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 11% for all occupations

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