The Medical Assistant Program is designed for you to train for an exciting new career in the healthcare field. You will learn the clinical as well as the administrative aspects of medical assisting.
Approximate Completion Time: Day – 7.5 months. Nights – 12 months.
Students can gain lab & clinical competencies including phlebotomy techniques, 12 lead EKG procedures, specimen collection, infection control & safety measures, vital signs, and assisting with minor office surgery and physical exams. The student will gain administrative competencies in medical bookkeeping, medical insurance billing & coding, medical records, medical office software, medical office ethics, injections, and master basic dosage calculations. Through Delta College’s medical assistant classes, students will learn to do all of these things and more in a professional setting.
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Medical Assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners. Their duties vary with the location, specialty, and size of the practice.
Medical assistants typically do the following:
Medical assistants need to learn the EHR software that their office uses and must take and record patients’ personal information. They must be able to keep that information confidential and discuss it only with other medical personnel who are involved in treating the patient.
In larger practices, medical assistants may specialize in either administrative or clinical work.
Medical Assistants perform many administrative duties. Some assistants buy and store supplies and equipment for the office. They answer telephones, greet patients, update and file patient medical records, fill out insurance forms, handle correspondence, schedule appointments, arrange for hospital admission and laboratory services, and handle billing and book keeping.
Clinical medical assistants have different duties, depending on the state where they work. They may do basic laboratory tests, dispose of contaminated supplies, and sterilize medical instruments. They might have additional responsibilities, such as instructing patients about medication or special diets, preparing patients for X-rays, removing stitches, drawing blood, or changing dressings. Medical assistant classes at Delta College aim to train students to be able to perform all these tasks and more.
Employment of medical assistants is expected to grow by 18 percent from 2020 to 2030, much faster than average for all occupations.
*Information taken from the Occupational Outlook Handbook on the internet 9/15/2021
The reason just about anyone attends medical assistant school is for a change in career. They want to earn more in a better environment. The median annual wage of medical assistants was $35,850 in May 2020. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $26,930 and the top 10 percent earned more than $50,580.
*Information taken from the Occupational Outlook Handbook on the internet 9/15/2021
