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MEDICAL ASSISTING
The Medical Assisting curriculum prepares multi-skilled health care professionals quali ed 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 CAAHEP-accredited medical assisting programs may be eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ Certi cation Examination to become Certi ed Medical Assistants. Employment opportunities include physicians’ of ces, health maintenance organizations, health departments, and hospitals.
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE DEGREE (AAS) A45400
FALL SEMESTER 1
Pre x Number ACA 111
BIO 163 ENG 111 MED 110 MED 118 MED 121 MED 130 MED 131
Title Class Lab Clinical Credit
SPRING SEMESTER 1
MAT 143 MED 122 MED 140 MED 150
Quantitative Literacy Medical Terminology II Exam Room Procedures I Laboratory Procedures I Totals
SUMMER SEMESTER
ENG 114 MED 270 MED 276
FALL SEMESTER 2
MED 232 MED 240 MED 272 NUT 110
3
2
12 02
SPRING SEMESTER 2
HUM 115 MED 260 MED 262 MED 264 PSY 150
Critical Thinking
MED Clinical Practicum
Clinical Perspectives
Medical Assisting Overview
General Psychology
Totals 10
Total Semester Hour Credits: 70
College Student Success
Basic Anatomy and Physiology I
Writing & Inquiry
Orientation to Medical Assisting
Medical Law and Ethics
Medical Terminology I
Admin. Of ce Procedures I ~ 1st Session
Admin. Of ce Procedures II ~ 2nd Session
Totals 16 6 0 19
2 3 3 3
11
Professional Research and Reporting
Symptomatology
Patient Education
Totals 6408
Medical Insurance Coding 1 Exam Room Procedures II 3 Drug Therapy 3 Nutrition 3 Totals 10
3 0 2 4 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 3 7 0 13
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1 0 0 1 4 2 0 5 3 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 1 2 0 2 1 2 0 2
2 0 3 0 0 3 4 0 5 4 0 5
10 0 16
0 0 3 2 0 3
3 0 0 3 0 0 15 5 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2
3
0 0 3 7 0 14