medical assistant

health care professional who performs routine clinical and administrative duties
Intangible allied_health_profession Q14970638
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medical assistant

Summary

medical assistant is an allied health profession[1]. It draws 183 Wikipedia views per month (allied_health_profession category, ranking #7 of 19).[2]

Key Facts

  • medical assistant's instance of is recorded as allied health profession[3].
  • medical assistant is a type of allied health professional[4].
  • medical assistant's said to be the same as is recorded as Medical assistant[5].
  • medical assistant's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 3221[6].
  • medical assistant's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 3256[7].
  • medical assistant's different from is recorded as physician assistant[8].
  • medical assistant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'asistente médica'}[9].
  • medical assistant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'zdravstvena asistentka'}[10].
  • medical assistant's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'pt', 'text': 'assistente médica'}[11].

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Definition and Type

medical assistant's instance of is recorded as allied health profession[3]. It is a type of allied health professional[4].

Why It Matters

medical assistant draws 183 Wikipedia views per month (allied_health_profession category, ranking #7 of 19).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_medical-assistant_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{medical assistant}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/medical-assistant}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 4d ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-08 occupation class 3344
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33423|batch #33423]]: fix or flag ISCO-88 (2)"
  2. 5d ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of allied health professional
    Esco occupation id 045f05f2-4ff8-46b2-9d08-e12a81657498
    Instance of
    Different from physician assistant
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33289|batch #33289]]: ESCO occupations, matched in OpenRefine (#4)"
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