Medical Assisting, Diploma

The mission of the Diploma in Medical Assisting program is to give students theoretical and hands-on experience allowing them to demonstrate clinical skills including patient care, laboratory procedures, venipuncture, assisting with exams, collecting specimens, administering patient medication, recording vital signs, and taking patient history. Students will be able to demonstrate administrative skills including scheduling, bookkeeping procedures, medical office and records management, processing of insurance claims, and procedural and diagnostic coding. This program requires students to purchase a health sciences kit from the University.

At the end of the program, students are able to:

• Define the roles and the responsibilities of a medical assistant.
• Demonstrate medical assistant principals and clinical procedures for managing an office practice, quality patient care, and laboratory procedures.
• Summarize the strategies for finding printed materials, personal communications, observations, and electronic resources related to healthcare.

This program typically takes 23 months to complete for part-time enrollment and 12 months to complete for students enrolled full-time.

Required courses for Diploma in Medical Assisting (14 core) = 14 courses or 63 credit hours

Core Requirements (14 courses or 63 credits)

MED 110	Anatomy and Physiology I	4.5
MED 120	Medical Terminology	4.5
MED 130	Medical Insurance, Billing, and Coding	4.5
MED 140	Basic Clinical Procedures	4.5
MED 200	Medical Office Practice & EMR	4.5
MED 210	Anatomy and Physiology II	4.5
MED 220	Professional Procedures	4.5
MED 230	Medical Law and Ethics	4.5
MED 240	Pharmacology I	4.5
MED 260	Exams andSpecialty Procedures	4.5
MED 265	EKG & Invasive Procedures	4.5
MED 290	Medical Assisting Externship	4.5
MIB 130	Diseases of the Human Body	4.5
SCI 115	Introduction to Computer Literacy	4.5