Medical Assisting
Central Career School's Medical Assistant program is designed to prepare Medical Assistants as multi-skilled health professionals specifically educated to work in ambulatory settings performing administrative and clinical duties. The practice of medical assisting directly influences the public's health and well-being, and requires mastery of a complex body of knowledge and specialized skills requiring both formal education and practical experience that serve as standards for entry into the profession.
At the completion of the program, graduates who have diligently attended class and their externship, studied, and practiced their skills should have the necessary skills to seek entry level employment as medical assistants.
What Our Students Say
CCS gave me the hands-on training I needed to find a great job in the Medical field.
Tindra, Medical Graduate
Learning Outcomes
As a Medical Assistant student at Central Career School you will learn to perform the following key tasks necessary for entry-level employment:
- Take vital signs
- Apply principles of infection control
- Prepare and maintain examination and treatment area
- Interview and take patient history
- Prepare patients for procedures
- Assist physician with examinations and treatments
- Perform selected tests that assist with diagnosis and treatment
- Perform immunological and microbiological tests and record results
- Run an electrocardiogram (EKG) and record results
- Screen and follow up patient test results
- Maintain medical records
- Serve as liaison between physician and patients
- Use medical terminology appropriately
- Anatomy and physiology
- Medical software and billing applications
- Processing insurance forms
- Medical front office management
During the externship phase of the program, you will gain clinical, laboratory, and administrative medical assisting experience in a medical office.
Did You Know?
What the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics says about Dental Assisting.
- Job opportunities should be excellent, particularly for those with formal training or experience
- Employment of medical assistants is expected to grow 34 percent from 2008 to 2018, much faster than average for all occupations … ranking medical assistants among the fastest growing occupations
LS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition: Medical Assistants (Selected excerpts).
Central Career School's Medical Assistant Program
Preparing health professionals to work in ambulatory settings performing administrative and clinical duties.
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