Medical Assisting One Year Certificate
Students who successfully complete all Medical Assisting, One-year Certificate programs requirements will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in modeling professional and ethical behaviors, including confidentiality, positive interpersonal interactions, and diplomacy.
- Demonstrate proficiency in efficient management of multiple tasks, both clinical and administrative.
- Demonstrate effective use of current technology, as well as written and oral communication, in completing medical assisting tasks.
- Successfully complete all 345 competencies required by the Medical Assistant Education Review Board and the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Professionals.
Program Course Requirements
See the graduation requirements for the One-Year Certificate. For information on the advised sequence of program courses, see the Medical Assisting, One-Year Certificate Program Map.
Communication
| CMA 142 | Communications and Human Relations in Healthcare | 5 |
| CMA 242 | Medical Assistant Clinical Block II | 9 |
CMA 142: 2 credit apply toward the Communication requirement, 3 credits apply toward the Human Relations requirement.
CMA 242: 1 credit applies toward to the Communication requirement, 8 credits apply toward programs requirements.
Human Relations
| CMA 142 | Communications and Human Relations in Healthcare | 5 |
CMA 142: 3 credits apply toward the Human Relations requirement, 2 credits apply toward the Communication requirement.
Computation
| CMA 143 | Reimbursement in Healthcare | 5 |
| CMA 147 | Administration & Finance for the Medical Assistant | 6 |
CMA 143: 2 credits apply toward the Computation requirement, 3 credits apply toward program requirements. CMA 147: 1 credit applies toward the Computation requirement, 5 credits apply toward program requirements.
Core Courses
| CMA 141 | Medical Terminology | 4 |
| CMA 144 | Law and Ethics for the Medical Assistant | 5 |
| CMA 145 | Pathology for the Medical Office | 3 |
| CMA 146 | Pharmacology for the Medical Assistant | 2 |
| CMA 148 | Practicum Seminar and Exam Coaching | 3 |
| CMA 241 | Medical Assistant Clinical Block I | 9 |
| CMA 250 | Administrative Practicum | 3 |
| CMA 260 | Clinical Practicum | 6 |
Total Credit Hours: 60