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Medical Secretary
OFO Code: 334401
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 334401
- Occupation
- Medical Secretary
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3344 · Medical Secretaries
Official description
Medical secretaries, using specialised knowledge of medical terminology and health care delivery procedures, assist health professionals and other workers by performing a variety of communication, documentation, administrative and internal coordination functions, to support health workers in medical facilities and other health-care related organizations.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Health Practice Manager, Medical Office Administrative Assistant, Patient Care Secretary, Medical Stenographer, Hospital Ward Secretary, Medical Practice Manager, Medical Transcriptionist, Pathology Secretary
- Assisting in the preparation of budgets, drafting of contracts and purchasing or acquisition orders
- Compiling, recording and reviewing medical charts, reports, documents and correspondence
- Maintaining medical files and records and technical library
- Preparing financial statements and billing procedures
- Interviewing patients to complete forms, documents and case histories
- Supervising the work of office support workers and other office staff
- Completing insurance and other claims forms
- Scheduling and confirming medical appointments and communicating messages for medical staff; and patients
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.