I work in an OB-GYN clinic operated by a University hospital / med school as a Medical Assistant. I am not a certified Medical Assistant, but this is the job title they gave me. It's student employment through my college. I do primarily direct patient care and keep ridiculously busy (like... no time to pee or eat busy). The thing I like most about it are the learning opportunities I have. I work with two very experienced doctors who are professors at the med school, and it is definitely a teaching clinic, so I find my curiosity and academic pursuits are highly encouraged and the doctors, residents and medical students are all happy to pass on their knowledge. We keep very busy with research which I also find fascinating.
I love working in scrubs and the chef in the adjacent hospital's cafeteria makes ridiculously delicious sandwiches. I have found it more difficult to bond with the staff than I did in the prehospital setting. I think it's due to intrinsic personality differences (all of my coworkers are physicians or somewhere on the path to becoming one, we don't employ nurses) and the fact that EMS fosters special, close relationships that you just can't find elsewhere.
I am currently in the process of being hired on as an OR/PACU Patient Care Tech (I'll mostly be in the PACU). I was interested in this job because it again provides direct patient care experience, it pays well, I'm interested in surgery, and the hospital system I'll be working for has excellent benefits especially as far as tuition reimbursement and nursing school go.
I also like how many skills and experiences in the PACU are relevant to those of critical care and emergency department work. Airway management is a big deal in the PACU! Also, I liked how I immediately felt that the nurses and nurse managers were enthusiastically supportive of me as a nursing student; and on top of that they almost all have extensive experience not only in the PACU but in the ED, ICU, etc.
