Medical Assisting - Administrative (Certificate of Achievement)

Graduates of the Administrative Medical Assisting program at Chabot College will have an opportunity to apply for employment as Administrative Medical Assistants in ambulatory care settings. Administrative Medical Assistants are multi-skilled allied health professionals who can perform a variety of administrative skills.

10-25

To prepare competent entry-level professional administrative medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor(skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains. 

To be responsive to the communities of interest that are served by the program to include, but are not limited to,students,  graduates, faculty, sponsor administration, industry partners, physicians, and the public.

Respond to the demands of the rapidly changing information technology by incorporating computer literacy in health care to include electronic health records and electronic practice management.

Employ principles of communication theory to facilitate and maintain effective,verbal, written and non verbal interaction.

Use critical thinking skills in managing care of patients.

To ensure that the student understands professional ethics, responsibility and confidentiality.

Recognize the need for accountability by maintaining professional development through continuing education.

To allow the student build confidence as an individual and as a valued member of a professional healthcare team.

To make the student cognizant of the need of total patient care, including emotional, spiritual and physical needs.

To ensure that the student does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.

To increase the student’s awareness of community health.

Based on all available data, there appears to be a large under supply of Medical Assisting workers compared to the demand for this cluster of occupations in the Bay region and in the East Bay sub-region (Alamed aand Contra Costa Counties.) There is a projected annual gap of about 5,439 students in the Bay region and 1,688 students in the East Bay Sub-Region.

This program will train administrative medical assistants students to enter the medical field as a medical administrative assistant, medical receptionist, medical secretary, scheduler, front office coordinator, and other medical administrative titles. No new courses have been prepared for this degree. Students who do not want to complete the clinical portion of the medical assistant program we offer currently, will be able to apply for the administrative program and take the administrative courses that are currently being offered. This will give an opportunity for students to obtain a Certificate of Achievement in Administrative Medical Assisting.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
HLTH 51A	Basic Med Term	4	Pre-Requisite
MEDA 60	Intro to Medical Assissting	2	Pre-Requisite
MEDA 76	Electronic Health Records	3	S1
CAS 50 or CSCI 8	Into to Computer Applications or Computer Literacy	3	S1
MEDA 71A	Administrative Skills 1	2	S1
HLTH 51B	Diseases Processes	4	S2
MEDA 71B	Administrative Skills 2	2	S2
MEDA 73	Clinical Practicum	4	S2
MEDA 74	Clinical Experience Seminar	1	S2

This will allow a students who do not want to perform the clinical skills but want to enter the medical field the ability to do so.

This should not impact any colleges in our service area as I was unable to determine if such a program existed.