Program Outcomes
Occupational Skills Award
Description
The Comprehensive Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion prepares students and incumbent workers with administrative and clinical instruction and skills training required for working in the front office and back office of a physician’s office, medical clinic, outpatient or ambulatory care center. This noncredit program is designed to help meet industry demand and offers education and opportunities for workers to upskill and cross train to the front and back office. Students learn soft skills, appointment scheduling, reception duties, HIPAA, electronic medical and health records, insurance authorizations, reimbursement, abstracting data, coding, medication administration, injections, physical examination procedures, minor office surgery procedures, laboratory procedures, venipuncture, ECG, and spirometry diagnostic testing. Program completion qualifies students to sit for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and Certified Practice Coder (CPC) certification exams, but does not qualify students to sit for the California Certifying Board for Medical Assistants (CCBMA) certification.
