Introduction Career planning is just like any other planning because it requires a person to define his or her goals as well as setting objectives in the right manner. The goals developed must make the plan a reality and the dream must be well-identified. In career planning, self-assessment is very crucial because it helps one in knowing whether the dreams suit his or her nature as well as ambitions. For a medical administrative assistant, professional planning is also important. As such, there is a need to examine the responsibilities, tasks, growth trends, salaries, and lifelong learning opportunities in the medical administrative assistant career field. Professional Plan The medical administrative assistant is one of the careers in the medical field. This is the person with whom the patients first interact with first when they get to the hospital. They are very important because they give the first impression to the patients thus determining the relationship between the patients and the medical hospital. The duties of the medical administrative assistant depend on the size of the facility. The main duties of a medical administrative assistant are to answer the phone calls and connect calls to the appropriate people. Besides, the medical administrative assistants always schedule appointments for sick people, which is a very important task, especially to the patients. They also involve themselves in canceling appointments, filing, and scanning of documents. Furthermore, they keep medical records and in some cases, they assist the doctors in treating patients by checking the blood pressure or temperature (AAMA, 2007). A medical administrative assistant must grow towards having a very articulate voice to facilitate answering phone calls. He or she should be able to multi-task due to the many incoming calls as well as attending to the many patients who come for appointments. The medical administrative assistant must also grow towards being accurate because he or she will always be involved in entering data using the computer. Computer skills are necessary and basic knowledge in mathematics is an added advantage. Lastly, the medical administrative assistant must observe punctuality and be reliable to avoid inconveniences in the health facility (BLS, 2009). The position of a medical administrative assistant is a good career since one has life long learning opportunities to perfect in the major areas or even climb up the ladder in the medical field. Overtime is little, especially where the responsibilities are well defined thus enough time to do further studies. From the pay scale survey, a medical administrative assistant earns around twelve dollars per hour. Another career in the medical field in dentistry. A dentist is a person who is involved in treating and preventing diseases of the teeth and gums. Dentists may assist the patients in taking care of their teeth. They perform duties such as filling of the teeth cavities and removing decayed teeth. It is their responsibility to assist people on how to take care of their teeth so that they can maintain good health. A dentist should be dedicated to assisting the patients in taking care of their teeth, thereby preventing oral diseases, in effect impr