Oct 31, 2024  
2023-2024 Catalog and Student Handbook Spring 2024 
    
2023-2024 Catalog and Student Handbook Spring 2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Medical Assisting, AAS


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The Medical Assisting curriculum prepares 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, computer operations; assisting with examinations/treatments, performing routine laboratory procedures, electrocardiography, supervised medication administration; and ethical/legal issues associated with patient care.

Graduates of CAAHEP-accredited medical assisting programs may be eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ Certification Examination to become Certified Medical Assistants. Employment opportunities include physicians’ offices, health maintenance organizations, health departments, and hospitals.

General Education Requirements (15 Credit Hours)


Communications (6 CH)


Humanities/Fine Arts (3 CH)


Choose one course:

Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 CH)


Psychology


Natural Sciences/Mathematics (3 CH)


Choose one course:

Biology


Mathematics


Total Credit Hours In Degree: 67


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