Students gain a variety of medical assisting skills including greeting clients and patients, taking vital signs, recording current medications, noting complaints and symptoms, and setting up patient exam rooms for specific types of examinations. Learn how to recognize infection, assist physician with physical exams and minor surgical procedures, perform laboratory procedures including blood withdrawal, urinalysis, and specimen collection, and assist with diagnostic procedures. This class prepares students for jobs as clinical, back-office medical assistants.
Medical Assistant, Clinical and Administrative trains students to assist a physician, work in a laboratory or medical office. Students learn medical and surgical asepsis; assisting the physician with physical examination of the patient and minor surgical procedures; electrocardiography; administration of medication by physician order; laboratory skills, to include blood withdrawal, urinalysis, and specimen collection; assisting with diagnostic procedures; nutrition; vital signs; introduction to basic anatomy and physiology and diseases commonly related to the medical office experience; medical terminology; and reinforcement of basic “prerequisite class” concepts. Required clinical work-based learning hours are included
