Medical Assistant - Ridgewater College - Wilmar

Medical Assistant from Ridgewater College - Wilmar is a Campus Certificate Health Aide degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Students will be taught a wide variety of laboratory, clinical , and administrative skills. During the first semester, curriculum emphasizes lab and clinical procedures as well as office machines. Clinical time in physicians? offices is spent at the end of the second semester to give students a chance to put to use their newly acquired skills. The program is three semesters in length. The last six weeks of the program is a practicum in an area physician?s office or clinic. After graduation, a national test for certification can be taken, allowing the student to become a Certified Medical Assistant (CMA, AAMA). Clinical skills: Vital signs Injections Supply sterilization Patient positioning Assisting with procedures Laboratory skills: Phlebotomy Microscopy Use of cell counters Recording of ECG?s Administrative skills: Scheduling appointments Insurance claims Banking/payroll Medical coding Medical records The medical assistant is a professional, multi-skilled person dedicated to assisting in patient care management. The practitioner performs administrative and clinical duties and may manage emergency situations, facilities and/or personnel. Medical assistants can be found in doctor offices, outpatient clinics, ambulatory facilities and other healthcare-related businesses. As a medical assistant, you might do office work, including answering phones or working with medical record, insurance forms, or accounts payable. As the doctor?s assistant , you would help with examinations, treatments, or medical histories, and perform diagnostic tests, sterilize instruments, and give injections. The laboratory exams include blood work, urinalysis, electrocardiograms, microbiology, and other types of routine lab work done in the doctor?s office. View more details on Ridgewater College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Aide courses.