Medical Assisting

The Comprehensive Medical Assisting Associate in Science Degree provides students with a balance and indepth study, practical skills and industry experience, through internship, in medical assisting front and back office procedures. Students develop critical thinking skills, hands-on classroom activities and practical work expereince in medical scribing, medical billing and coding, and medical assisting administrative and clinical procedures. Students earn an Associate Degree in Comprehensive Medical Assisting after completing all of the course work in adminstrative and clincal medical assisting as well as the general education requirements.

40

The Medical Assisting Degree program is a comprehensive program designed to provide students with technical knowledge, practical skills, classroom experience and externship opportunity in both the administrative and clinical aspects of medical assisting. Students are prepared to sucessfully pass national exams in medical assisting adminstative, clinical, billing and coding, and medical scribing.

AH 105 Medical Terminology 3.0 units ANAT 104 Survery of Human Anatomy & Physiology 5.0 units CSIS 101 Introduction to Computers and Data Processing 3.0 units MA 122 Medical Ethics 3.0 units MA 072 Adminstrative Medical Assisting 3.0 units MA 076 Medical Billing and Coding 4.0 units MA 075 Medical Scribe 3.0 units MA 073 Clinical Medical Assisting 4.0 units NURS 194 Pharmacology and Dosage Calculation for Nurses 3.5 units AH 149 Cooperative Work Experience: Allied Health 1.0 - 4.0 units There are 44.5 units of medical assistining specefic course in addition to the required general education courses to complete the associate's degree program.