CERTIFIED CLINICAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT (CCMA)

Course Objective/Purpose:

This program is intended for students who want to prepare for an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career in healthcare. This program will train you to assist physicians by performing functions related to the clinical responsibilities of a medical office. Instruction includes preparing patients for examination and treatment, routine laboratory procedures, diagnostic testing, technical aspects of phlebotomy, and the cardiac life cycle. You will review important topics including phlebotomy, pharmacology, the proper use, and administration of medications, taking and documenting vital signs, cardiology including proper lead placements, professional workplace behavior, ethics, and the legal aspects of healthcare.

This program includes 96 hours of classroom lecture, 40 hours of classroom labs and 50 hours clinical externship opportunity at a local healthcare provider. To be eligible for the clinical rotation, you must successfully complete the 96-hour course. 

This course of instruction prepares individuals for entry-level jobs as a Medical Assistant.  Graduates may find suitable employment with a Healthcare facility, Doctor’s Office or Clinic, Hospitals, Medical Supply companies, Home health agencies and Insurance companies. Students will learn Clinical skills: Taking patient histories, Taking, and reading vital signs, EKG’s, assisting in cast application and removal, assisting in minor surgery, Instrument usage, Patient preparation, Basic lab procedures, Performing diagnostic procedures, and CPR.  Students will learn Administrative skills: Appointment scheduling, Patient charting, Patient billing and fee collections, Basic insurance coding, Computers, completing insurance forms, Maintaining medical records, Communication and Customer Service. Upon successful completion of this program students will receive a certificate of completion and would be eligible to sit for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Clinical Medical Assistant national examination.