Evelyn Contreras

Responsible medical assistant eager to continue my career with the medical field where I can provide patients with comfortable and professional care. A medical assistant with willingness to learn and grow in the medical field and fullfill objectives.

Medical Assistant - Sierra Pacific Orthopedics

(2023-12 - 2026-08)

• Managed patient flow and care
• Scheduled patients, answered questions, and telephone tasks
• Prepared rooms for patients and providers, set up injections, removed sutures, and dispensed braces
• Requested authorization for injections, physical therapy, braces, and other items for certain patient insurances
• Answered patient questions whether via telephone or in-person
• Prepared x-ray lists days prior based on provider schedule
• Upload imaging from CDs and request reports
• Upload surgery images to each patient based on date of surgery, initials, and type of surgery
• Clean and autoclave suture kit instruments
• WC referrals preparation for provider reviewal
• Complete Cover my meds forms for prescriptions that require authorization approved
• Assist other Medical Assistants with their providers and assisting providers with DME dispensing, preparing injections, rooming patients, etc

Medical Assistant - Externship - Valley Natural Health

(2023-10 - 2023-11)

• Assisted another medical assistant with vital signs and triaging patients
• Prepared patient charts before arrival and documented essential patient information to their charts
• Ordered labs and sent out referrals based on care of plan to other providers
• Answered patient letters and called patients for telehealth appointments
• Performed urinalysis and urine drug screens along with running a cures report for controlled medication refills
• Requested medical records from other facilities
• Printed care plan and lab orders for patients
• Scanned documents into patient charts

Bachelor of Science - Criminology, Law Enforcement option - California State University, Fresno (2021-05)

Certificate - Professional Medical Assistant - Institute of Technology (2023-11)

AA - Life Science and Human Biology - Clovis Community College (2026-05-21)