The Medical Assisting curriculum prepares multi-skilled health care professionals qualified to perform administrative, clinical, and laboratory procedures.
Course work includes instruction in scheduling appointments, coding and processing insurance accounts, billing, collections, computer operations; assisting with examinations/treatments, performing routine laboratory procedures, electrocardiography, supervised medication administration; and ethical/legal issues associated with patient care.
Graduates of CAAHEP-accredited medical assisting programs may be eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ Certification Examination to become Certified Medical Assistants. Employment opportunities include physicians’ offices, health maintenance organizations, health departments, and hospitals.
The certificate program at WCC is NOT CAAHEP accredited.
*Upon completion of this certificate, the student is not eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ Certification Examination. However, the student who meets the admission requirements may apply to the Associate in Applied Science- Medical Assisting Program.
First (Fall) Semester
| OST 136 | Word Processing | 3 |
| MED 121 | Medical Terminology I | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 6 |
Second (Spring) Semester
| BIO 163 | Basic Anatomy & Physiology | 5 |
| MED 122 | Medical Terminology II | 3 |
| OST 149 | Medical Legal Issues | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 11 |
Total Credit Hours: 17