Clinical Medical Assistant
This 140-hour Clinical Medical Assisting class is designed to prepare students to function as professionals in multiple healthcare settings performing both administrative and clinical tasks. CMAs work in physician’s offices, walk-in/urgent care clinics, chiropractor’s offices, hospitals and outpatient facilities.
This course covers the following key areas and topics:
- Medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, cardiology
- HIPAA, patient confidentiality, legal aspects of healthcare and regulatory patient care issues
- Preparing patients for examination and treatment, routine procedures and diagnostic testing
- Recording and taking of vital signs, blood pressure, and other patient care items related to their visit
- Review and administration of medications, allergies and other pharmacology related items
- Aseptic techniques, infection prevention, universal precautions, proper use and disposal of biohazards and sharps
- Laboratory procedures, phlebotomy and the proper techniques required to collect specimens for laboratory analysis including phlebotomy
- Performing electrocardiograms (EKG)
- Interpersonal and communication skills
Students who complete this course will be prepared to sit for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) national certification examination.
Fall 2024 TBD
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. and
Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tuition: $2,599