Medical Assistant Jobs Are Growing

Cole Holland Training Center is proud to offer an affordable and professional Medical Assistant course. Students learn both administrative and clinical responsibilities - and with a 200 hour externship over the course of the program, students get the real life, hands on experience they need to master their skills and to get a great career. 

This is a great opportunity to start a new career in health care. Medical Assistants often work in doctor’s offices or clinics and have regular work hours and a chance to work with other health care professionals. Job growth is predicted to remain high throughout the decade, so jobs are plentiful in this field.Our course is also affordable – with assistance from Workforce Services and our payment plan, it is possible to graduate DEBT-FREE rather than incur up to $40,000 in debt with other programs. Call us for details about ways you can finance this course!

Our Medical Assisting Course is a 94-Quarter Credit Hour course  (approximately 960 hours) with a mandatory unpaid 200 hour externship spread out over the course of the curriculum. This course prepares students to work as Medical Assistants. The course covers both administrative and clinical applications.

Medical assistants are multi-skilled health professionals who perform a wide range of roles in physician’s offices and other health care settings. Duties may vary, depending upon location and size of the practice and the physician’s specialty, but medical assistants typically answer telephones, prepare patients for examination, update and file patient medical records, fill out insurance forms, handle patient billing and bookkeeping tasks, telephone prescriptions to a pharmacy, schedule appointments, arrange hospital admissions, and purchase supplies and equipment. New courses begin each academic quarter and financial assistance is available.

Medical assistants may also take vital signs and medical histories, assist the physician or nurse during patient examinations, collect and prepare laboratory specimens or arrange for laboratory services, perform electrocardiograms, remove sutures, and change dressings.  Medical assistants are primarily employed in private physician’s practice, but may also be employed by medical centers, medical specialty clinics, insurance billing agencies, medical transcription agencies, laboratories, and emergency rooms.

The Medical Assistant Program consists of a general orientation to the profession, including employment conditions, credentialing and general responsibilities and the scope of practice. The course also includes anatomy and physiology, diet and nutrition, body systems, common diseases, diagnoses and treatments, medical terminology, medical law and ethics, psychology of human relations including abnormal behavior, empathy, and support for terminally ill patients, developmental stages of life, culture, heredity and environment, pharmacology including math and metric conversions, use of drug references, basic keyboarding and computer concepts including computer application skills using a variety of different electronic programs for practice management and EMR software, medical business office procedures and management, medical office clinical including patient histories, vital signs, test results, emergency and surgical procedures, immunizations, standard precautions, wrapping for sterilization and assisting the physician with examinations and treatments, first aid, and medical laboratory procedures including quality control, CLIA-waived tests, biohazards and specimens and finally career development including essentials for employment and professionalism.  A clinical externship of at least 200 hours is required for completion of the program.

In the Medical Assistant Program, students are required to complete 18 units of study – these are divided into six modules in 12-week quarters. Each unit is comprised of several chapters that cover a specific aspect of medical assisting. All units require online course work, attendance at lectures, skills practice and pass off, and self-directed study in the computer lab as well as Service Learning opportunities.

We offer the best education in a warm, friendly, fun, respectful and engaging environment. Come check it out - tour the school and meet the staff and other students. We promise you will be delighted by what you find. 

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