Medical Assistant - Chippewa Valley Technical College

Medical Assistant from Chippewa Valley Technical College is a Campus Certificate Health Aide degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Medical Assistant program prepares individuals to assist physicians in their offices or other medical settings. Medical assistants perform a wide range of duties. The medical assistant is responsible for medical and surgical asepsis, taking vital signs, assisting the physician with examinations and surgery, administering ECGs and medications. The business/administrative duties include patient reception, appointment making, recordkeeping, filing, bookkeeping, insurance handling, typing medical correspondence, and microcomputer applications. Laboratory functions include specimen collection, performance of basic laboratory tests, and microscopic work. The program's goal is to prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains. Upon completion of this program, the student will be able to: perform clerical functions. perform bookkeeping procedures. prepare special accounting entries. apply principles of medical asepsis. perform specimen collection. perform diagnostic testing. process insurance claims. provide patient care. communicate effectively. apply legal and ethical concepts. instruct patients. perform medical office operational functions. demonstrate professionalism in a health care setting. Graduates from this program can sit for the American Association of Medical Assistant national certification exam. Upon successful completion of this test, the person can use the title Certified Medical Assistant [CMA (AAMA)]. Helpful Academic Background Keyboarding MS Word experience English (grammar, punctuation, spelling) Basic Algebra Biology View more details on Chippewa Valley Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Aide courses.