The Medical Assisting program prepares students to become multi-skilled health care professionals qualified to perform administrative, clinical, and laboratory procedures.

Course work includes instruction in scheduling appointments, coding and processing insurance accounts, billing, collections, medical transcription, computer operations; assisting with examinations/treatments, performing routine laboratory procedures, electrocardiography, supervised medication administration; and ethical/legal issues associated with patient care.

Graduates of the Medical Assisting program have employment opportunities in physicians’ offices, health maintenance organizations (HMO’s), health departments, and hospital clinics.

The program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). Graduates from the program are eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) exam upon completion of the program.

Please Note: Effective January 1, 2010, all students for whom United States English is not their primary language who are accepted and enroll in a Health Technologies program (that is, enter the sequence of program specific courses) must meet the English language requirements. Read more.