Medical practice assistant EFZ

As a medical practice assistant (MPA), you will work closely with the medical profession. You will see patients and help them prepare for examinations. You will assist with various medical procedures, apply bandages, administer injections, take X-rays and carry out blood, urine and stool tests. You will also organize the course of consultations, answer the telephone and carry out a large part of the administrative work. As a trained MPA, you can work in doctors' surgeries, group practices and hospitals.

During your training at the USB, you will work in the various outpatient clinics and gain an insight into the laboratory and X-ray departments. In your day-to-day work, you will be closely supervised by vocational trainers and guided to your apprenticeship qualification. You will attend vocational school at the Huber Widemann School and inter-company courses at the ODA Gesundheit beider Basel.

"Home base concept" - this is how your apprenticeship as an MPA works:

1st year of training
You will work in a training department, e.g. the medical outpatient clinic. You will also get to know the training ward and learn professional skills in the first and second semesters (e.g. taking blood pressure). External assignments, such as in the laboratory and X-ray institute, provide even more variety.

2nd year of training
In the second year, you will move to the surgical outpatient clinic and women's outpatient clinic (for 6 months each). Here you will deepen the skills you have already learned in another specialist area and acquire professional skills in the third and fourth semesters. As in the first year of training, you will again have external assignments in laboratory and X-ray institutes.

3rd year of training
Your last year as an apprentice at the USB! You will return to your "home port", i.e. the medical outpatient clinic. External assignments in the laboratory and X-ray institute await you so that you can deepen the professional skills you have learned. Last but not least: the final apprenticeship examination awaits you - which is why you will be really well prepared for it again in the last year of your training.

• Completion of compulsory schooling, level E (or level A with 10th school year)
• You have a keen interest in scientific and technical contexts
• As an MPA, you will always have contact with patients. You should therefore enjoy contact with people
• Teamwork and empathy are your strengths
• You can express yourself well verbally and in writing
• The customer is king! You are service-oriented and work carefully
• Practical skills
• You are no stranger to hygiene awareness
• Neither is a sense of responsibility
• You are physically and mentally resilient

The vocational baccalaureate complements your basic vocational training with an extended general education. It gives you access to a university of applied sciences (UAS).

• 5 weeks vacation
• 13th monthly salary
• Practical and personal support
• Great offers, such as free sports courses and discounts at Ticketcorner.

It never hurts to look into the future. That's why we're already telling you what you could do after your apprenticeship as an MPA. Namely this: once you have completed your training, you will have the opportunity to complete various higher specialist training courses. These include biomedical analysis, medical-technical radiology, surgical nursing, orthoptics or nursing. These courses are all offered at the USB.

We look forward to receiving your application. Even more so if it is complete. So make sure that your application dossier - the heart of the application - includes your CV and references. The CV helps us to know a few things about you before the first interview. So list the most important information about you in your CV. We don't mean the number of followers you have on Insta or the games you have won on FIFA, but your date of birth, address, the name of your school, as well as your hobbies and interests.

If we are impressed by your application dossier, we will invite you to an interview. To make sure you make a good impression there, you should find out a little about the University Hospital Basel beforehand. Take a look at our website, scroll through our Instagram feed or check out the USB YouTube channel. This is the best way to find out exactly what we do here and whether you like it.

Not quite sure how the school works? Wondering who your instructor will be? Make a note of all the questions on a piece of paper so that you don't forget to ask them at the interview because you're so nervous!

Please note that we only accept applications via our online platform and not by email.

• Multicheck
• Language tests (minimum requirement: B1/B2)
• Basel Vocational Information Center (BIZ)
• Basel-Stadt Health Education Center
• Oda Health