Medical Assisting

Note: Students are required to wear a uniform, shoes, and name tag.
Students must provide a TB and Hepatitis B health certificate.

• Learn duties and responsibilities of administrative and clinical medical assistants
• Learn to assist in minor surgical procedures, record vital signs, perform venipuncture, administer EKGs and injections
• Curriculum includes anatomy and physiology: all body systems and organization
• Study exam room procedures, aseptic practices, spelling and terminology, and law and ethics
• Office skills taught include implementing basic accounting procedures, filing insurance claims, billing and scheduling patients, preparing medical charts, reports, keyboarding and dictation and correspondence
• Requirements: approved uniform, shoes, nametag, TB and Hepatitis B health certificate.
• After graduation, students will need to complete the program as well as a 200 hour externship
• Taught by Ivy Tech Community College