Certificate Program with 100 hours of Externship
430 Clock Hours/15 Weeks/4 Months Program
Objectives and goals
The Medical Assistance MA 430 Clinical Program is designed to prepare students to become
skilled Clinical Medical Assistants. They will be
trained how to become multi-faced members of the health
care team and work closely with doctors, nurses,
and other health care professionals delivering patient care
and assuming appropriate responsibilities before, during
and after hospital stays, surgical procedures, and
doctor's care. Training also consists of the basic
knowledge of medical terminology, pharmacology, anatomy
and physiology.
The Program's main focus is on providing patient care, performing EKG, drawing blood, taking vital signs, giving immunization and doing urinalysis. In addition, students will also be introduced to scheduling appointments, filling out insurance forms, and different patient related issues.
Upon successful completion of the program, the graduates will be proficient in performing entry-level back office duties and entry level front office duties, both general practice as well as specialty practice, hospitals, emergency rooms, clinics, and other health care facilities.
Working conditions
Medical Assistants work in clean, well lit, cool and relatively quiet
environments. They may well be required to stand for long periods of time, and
it is vital their attention be focused on the tasks at hand. They may at times
be exposed to communicable diseases, sights and material.
Most medical assistants work a regular 40-hour week: although they may be
"Part-time", work nights, weekends and holidays on a rotating basis, depending
on their facility.
Employment
Many medical assistants are employed in Doctor's offices, hospitals, ambulatory
centers, and emergency departments. Some are employed directly by doctors in
the "private assistant role," while others work as surgical assistants. They
are also utilized in clinics, surgery centers, and general and specialty
medical offices. Their broad educational background plus specialized focus,
allows medical assistants to function well in a number of diverse areas of
their field.
Employment possibilities in addition to Medical Assistant include, surgery schedulers, materials management, organ/tissues procurement and preservation, cardiac catheterization laboratories, product development, EKG technicians, phlebotomists and marketing and sales. A number of medical assistants become instructors after 3 years of experience in the field.