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The Need For Soft Skills In A Medical Assistant Program, Micheal L. Randolph
The Need For Soft Skills In A Medical Assistant Program, Micheal L. Randolph
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
There is a perceived soft skills problem within the medical assistant program (MAP) at a 2-year technical college in the Midwestern United States. Soft skills refer to relational skills such as practicing self-management, communicating with various groups, adapting to change, negotiating, and resolving conflict. The purposes of this intrinsic case study were to (a) understand the perspectives of faculty, staff, and leadership regarding students' soft skills ability within the study MAP and (b) identify important soft skills needed in the workplace. An integrative conceptual framework that drew upon vocational and organizational theories was used as a theoretical framework for the …