Per national accrediting requirements All Medical Assistant programs should teach the following;

Patient therapeutic communication

Vital signs Blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration,

Height and weight

Rooming a patient

taking a history and physical with interview techniques

Intramuscular injections, at various sites, amounts of medication to be given, adults, teens, children and infants

How to assist Physician in sterile technique

Mono-stat, rapid strep in office tests

IV insertion, medication drip calculations

Body Mass Index analysis with CDC graphs

Assisting in Physician in minor surgical procedures

Drawing up medication through ampules

Drawing up medications reconstituting powdered medication

Medical Electronic health records

Drug screens

Assisting patient in various medical positioning

Processing Specimens

Storing medication and vaccines

Administering dosages, (Medication Calculation)

IV insertion and calculation

Assisting in pelvic examination

Applying ECG leads and interpreting Telemetry

Anatomy and physiology of the heart

SOAP Note charting

Medical Terminology

Follow up visits and after care of patient

Books will be provided to all students upon enrollment and must be returned after course is completed.  Students will attend a one day clinical at a specified health care facility with a Registered Nurse BSN and perform a history and physical on a patient.  All students who display exemplary performance will be offered a 204 hour clinical externship with a local urgent care or physicians office.  Students who wish to take the NCCT national accrediting exam will be eligible to take the exam via computers at our school under the supervision of our new proctor.

All classes are taught by a certified registered medical assistant with over 20 years experience in the field of orthopedics, who is also nationally certified with the prestigious Master Caster award, and a Family Nurse Practitioner.

Includes
Clinical Medical Assistant
Patient Care Tech
ECG Tech

Students are given unlimited access to our schools web-based educational learning portal at no charge.