As far as medical coding, one usually needs a couple of years experience doing coding tasks, certification(s) within the field and preferably completion of an accredited course to possibly get a job. Just fyi that with medical billing that it, unfortunately, seems as though a lot of companies are outsourcing to Asia/India making jobs much more scarce. With central sterile tech or even surgical tech, one will most likely be dealing with blood and other bodily fluids.

With medical transcription, please beware of those ‘work at home’ offers as just about all are scams especially if asking for money upfront or for personal info which may put one at risk for identity theft: http://www.ftc.gov and can click “identity theft” or such.

I would just go with what you’re comfortable with.

Please forgo those private $$ tech schools and instead look into the county vo-tech school or community college as long as it’s accredited within the industry.

Please also steer clear of those online, for-profit schools such as penn foster, stratford career, university of phoenix, everest, ITT tech, ashworth, sanford brown, capella, kaplan, US career, walden, strayer and others as they are merely out to ‘make a profit’ (and course credits may not transfer): http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search.

For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

Edit: Unfortunately, there aren’t supposed to be too many jobs for the medical assistant due to the field being saturated with graduates from the numerous training programs.