Medical Assisting and Office Management - Community College of Philadelphia

Medical Assisting and Office Management from Community College of Philadelphia is a Campus Associate Health Aide degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Medical Assisting and Office Management (MAOM) curriculum prepares students to become valuable members of the health care professional team, of prime importance in helping physicians respond successfully to a rapidly changing environment. Graduates can secure positions as medical assistants in physicians' offices, medical clinics, and hospitals. Other employment opportunities include working as a phlebotomist, insurance billing specialist, procedural coder, and an entry-level medical office manager. Medical assistants perform administrative skills in medical records, appointment scheduling, telephone, financial and operations management. Types of clinical and laboratory skills performed by a medical assistant include: taking vital signs; administering medication; performing electro-cardiography and spirometry testing; assisting the physician with specialty examinations; and performing diagnostic laboratory tests in hematology, chemistry, microbiology and immunology. In addition to the classroom and laboratory components of the program, the students will spend a required number of hours in two different clinical externship experiences. Externship sites include a hospital or outpatient laboratory and a primary care physician's office or medical clinic where students are given the opportunity to gain experience applying their medical assisting administrative and clinical skills. Certain MAOM courses are offered in an accelerated format for students who wish to improve their marketability even before earning their Associate degree . This fast track of course clusters is also available for the student who works during the day and who is interested in rapidly enhancing his/her current skills, or is looking for a career change. The clusters will prepare a student to work in the medical office as a front office assistant, or in the billing office. View more details on Community College of Philadelphia . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Aide courses.